Automated liana extraction model using a supervised machine learning classifier

(Sample training data from two different sites)

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Artistic process - Fieldwork

Image captured during walks in the forest

Itatiba (Brazil)

A sketch-profile drawn from a fruit forest in West Sumatra, Indonesia

showing the complex, forest-like structure of the vegetation

Domestic Forests: A New Paradigm for Integrating Local Communities’

Forestry into Tropical Forest Science

Artistic process - Fieldwork

Image captured during walks in the forest

Itatiba (Brazil)

Eigen vectors calculated for a set of (a) liana, (b) tree and (c) leaf points

indicated by black squares from plot NOU_5

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Hold tight | 2023

woody vine in the studio

Turku / Åbo (Finland)

Artistic process in the studio

Using the chromakey background to shoot the movie

Itatiba (Brazil)

Artistic process in the studio

Experiments using  a torque motor to emulate the movement of a climbing plant

Itatiba (Brazil)

Illustration of the results from the post processing steps

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Aristolochia Gigantea Brasiliensis (a.k.a. Mil-Homens)

woody vine samples in the studio

Itatiba (Brazil)

Woody vine samples in the studio

Caboclo and Mil-Homens / for medicinal uses and spiritual rituals

Itatiba (Brazil)

Climbing plants | 2023

Setting up the installation

torque motor, controller, power supply, woody vine, electric wires and metal spiral
Variable dimensions

Climbing plants | 2023

stills from the video

Artistic process  in the studio

Initial configuration attempts using the roller tracks

Itatiba (Brazil)

(a) Ground truth and (b) Model predictions for plot GIG_1 in Gigante (c) Post-processing result. Blue squares indicate the areas which could not be corrected by post-processing.

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Artistic process - Fieldwork

Image captured during my walks in the forest

Itatiba (Brazil)

(a) Blue bindweed (Ipomoea purpurea), a typical twining plant

(illustration from von Sachs’ physiology of plants). The shoot apex spans from a to b.

(b) Diagram of the apex region of a climbing twiner.

Mechanics of Climbing and Attachment in Twining Plants

Artistic process in the studio

Using roller tracks as an object analogous to the dynamics of lianas

Itatiba (Brazil)

Schematic representation of the three disturbance treatments applied to the lianas, total canopy fall, partial fall and lianas completely maintained into the canopy (control treatment)

British Ecological Society  - Journal of Ecology

Artistic process in the studio

Experiment with climbing plants - observing the growth of vines over time

Itatiba (Brazil)

Studio and surroundings - secundary Atlantic Forest

Itatiba (Brazil)

Studio - partial view

 Itatiba (Brazil)

Artistic process in the studio

woody vine collected in the forest

Itatiba (Brazil)