Tian Yuan, Zhao Chunjiang, Lu Shenglian, Guo Xinyu. Advances in appearance modeling and photorealistic rendering of plant leaves[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2012, 17(5): 613-620. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20120502.
Advances in appearance modeling and photorealistic rendering of plant leaves
Photorealistic modeling of plants appearance is an important research area in computer graphics. Plant leaves receives wide attention as the most important plant organ. Recently
by the rapid development of computer hardware and graphics algorithm and deep research in physiological structure of plant leaves
appearance modeling and photorealistic rendering of plant leaves has reached many good results. Especially
the acquisition of reflectance properties of plant leaves and appearance modeling are hot research topics. Starting from the definition of a photorealistic appearance model
we review the newest research development in plant appearance model and photorealistic rendering algorithm in China and abroad
and we analyze all kinds of algorithms. In the end
we summarize some problems in this research field and proposes an outlook and trends.