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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2019, Volume 20, Issue 9 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1800702

Wheat ear growth modeling based on a polygon

1. School of Software, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450000, China
2. School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450000, China
3. School of Software, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia

Available online: 2019-11-07

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Abstract

Visual inspection of wheat growth has been a useful tool for understanding and implementing agricultural techniques and a way to accurately predict the growth status of wheat yields for economists and policy decision makers. In this paper, we present a polygonal approach for modeling the growth process of wheat ears. The grain, lemma, and palea of wheat ears are represented as editable polygonal models, which can be re-polygonized to detect collision during the growth process. We then rotate and move the colliding grain to resolve the collision problem. A linear interpolation and a spherical interpolation are developed to simulate the growth of wheat grain, performed in the process of heading and growth of wheat grain. Experimental results show that the method has a good modeling effect and can realize the modeling of wheat ears at different growth stages.

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