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Advances in imaging hardware allow high throughput capture of the detailed three-dimensional (3D) structure of plant canopies. The point cloud data is typically post-processed to extract coarse-scale geometric features (like volume, surface area, height, etc.) for downstream analysis. We extend feature extraction from 3D point cloud data to various additional features, which we denote as ‘canopy fingerprints’. This is motivated by the successful application of the fingerprint concept for molecular fingerprints in chemistry applications and acoustic fingerprints in sound engineering applications. We developed an end-to-end pipeline to generate canopy fingerprints of a three-dimensional point cloud of soybean [Glycine max(L.) Merr.] canopies grown in hill plots captured by a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS). The pipeline includes noise removal, registration, and plot extraction, followed by the canopy fingerprint generation. The canopy fingerprints are generated by splitting the data into multiple sub-canopy scale components and extracting sub-canopy scale geometric features. The generated canopy fingerprints are interpretable and can assist in identifying patterns in a database of canopies, querying similar canopies, or identifying canopies with a certain shape. The framework can be extended to other modalities (for instance, hyperspectral point clouds) and tuned to find the most informative fingerprint representation for downstream tasks. These canopy fingerprints can aid in the utilization of canopy traits at previously unutilized scales, and therefore have applications in plant breeding and resilient crop production.
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Synthetic Latent Fingerprint Generation Using Style Transfer
Limited data availability is a challenging problem in the latent fingerprint domain. Synthetically generated fingerprints are vital for training data-hungry neural network-based algorithms. Conventional methods distort clean fingerprints to generate synthetic latent fingerprints. We propose a simple and effective approach using style transfer and image blending to synthesize realistic latent fingerprints. Our evaluation criteria and experiments demonstrate that the generated synthetic latent fingerprints preserve the identity information from the input contact- based fingerprints while possessing similar characteristics as real latent fingerprints. Additionally, we show that the generated fingerprints exhibit several qualities and styles, suggesting that the proposed method can generate multiple samples from a single fingerprint.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1650474
- PAR ID:
- 10496404
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2023 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG)
- ISBN:
- 979-8-3503-3655-9
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 6
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Darmstadt, Germany
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOSIG58226.2023.10345974
