In this paper, we study the application of the box counting method (BCM) to estimate the fractal dimension of 3D plant foliage. We use artificial crowns with known theoretical fractal dimension to characterize the accuracy of the BCM and we extend the approach to 3D digitized plants. In particular, errors are experimentally characterized for the estimated values of the fractal dimension. Results show that, with careful protocols, the estimated values are quite accurate. Several limits of the BCM are also analyzed in this context. This analysis is used to introduce a new estimator, derived from the BCM estimator, whose behavior is characterized. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Da Silva, D., Boudon, F., Godin, C., Puech, O., Smith, C., & Sinoquet, H. (2006). A critical appraisal of the box counting method to assess the fractal dimension of tree crowns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4291 LNCS-I, pp. 751–760). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11919476_75
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