Comparing the shapes of trees

AJ Dobson - … of the Third Australian Conference Held at the …, 1975 - Springer
… altering the shape of the tree. Also the edges may be stretched or compressed without
altering the shape - the biological significance of this is discussed by Williams and Clifford [5]. …

Further studies of preferred tree shapes

J Summit, R Sommer - Environment and Behavior, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
… , and triangles, studies of tree shape combined the basic laws of proportion and the harmony
of parts with natural processes of growth and development. Early philosophers placed …

On comparing the shapes of taxonomic trees

JS Farris - Systematic Zoology, 1973 - academic.oup.com
… A hierarchic clustering, or tree, of several objects can be … are the number of nodes of the
tree lying on the path connecting a pair of objects. It has been suggested that two trees for the

The tree of shapes of an image

C Ballester, V Caselles, P Monasse - ESAIM: Control, Optimisation …, 2003 - cambridge.org
… We prove the finiteness of the tree when the image is the result of applying … the shapes of
an image, defined as the saturation of the connected components of its level sets, have a tree

The shape of supertrees to come: tree shape related properties of fourteen supertree methods

M Wilkinson, JA Cotton, C Creevey… - Systematic …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
the impact of input tree shape upon a broad range of supertree methods. We find that input
tree shape … several supertree methods and that input tree shape effects may be substantial. …

Perceiving the size of trees: Form as information about scale.

GP Bingham - … of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and …, 1993 - psycnet.apa.org
the shape of biological objects that correspond to their sizes. The author investigated whether
2 such properties of tree … used to evaluate the height of trees. Observers judged simulated …

The structural optimization of trees

C Mattheck, K Bethge - Naturwissenschaften, 1998 - Springer
… by the tree, which can grow but not shrink. Trees cannot hide their load history; the shape of
the tree … of sabre-shaped trees into disks by Dietrich of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. On …

From curves to trees: A tree-like shapes distance using the elastic shape analysis framework

A Mottini, X Descombes, F Besse - Neuroinformatics, 2015 - Springer
… methods that analyze their shape and quantify differences … a method for the comparison of
tree-like shapes that takes into … on the Elastic Shape Analysis Framework, also computes the

Shape quantization and recognition with randomized trees

Y Amit, D Geman - Neural computation, 1997 - direct.mit.edu
… Our approach is to select informative features and build tree classifiers at the same time
by … to shape recognition based on the joint induction of shape features and tree classifiers. …

Crown shapes of urban trees-their dependences on tree species, tree age and local environment, and effects on ecosystem services

E Franceschi, A Moser-Reischl, MA Rahman, S Pauleit… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
the crown shapes of common central European urban tree … that an improved crown shape
modeling in urban tree models is … the crown shape of trees is not influenced by the climate or …