Indeed. I am seeing some generative approaches that know what the object should look like in 3D and use that knowledge to imagine a model that matches a photo. I think such a technique would be useful for good approximation of plant models. Such a project would require some new datasets I would think, but seems like a good approach.

Just came across this which is neat: https://github.com/AljazBozic/DeepDeform

Also this might be useful: https://github.com/paschalidoud/hierarchical_primitives

For now I’m just beginning to collect data but I hope to contribute more to the field in time!