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Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) data is a valuable asset in fluid mechanics. It is capable of visualizing flow structures even in complex physics scenarios, such as the flow at the exit of the rotor of a centrifugal fan. Machine learning…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-01 Maryam Soltani , Ghasem Akbari , Nader Montazerin

Investigation of external flows past arbitrary objects requires access to the information in the boundary layer and the inviscid flow to paint a full picture of their characteristics. However, in laser diagnostic techniques such as particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-09 Shuangjiu Fu , Shabnam Raayai-Ardakani

Event cameras rely on motion to obtain information about scene appearance. This means that appearance and motion are inherently linked: either both are present and recorded in the event data, or neither is captured. Previous works treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuang Guo , Friedhelm Hamann , Guillermo Gallego

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is the most commonly used optical technique for measuring 2D velocity fields. However, improving the spatial resolution of instantaneous velocity fields and having access to the velocity field in real time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-04 Juan Pimienta , Jean-Luc Aider

This study explores the potential of neuromorphic Event-Based Vision (EBV) cameras for data-efficient representation of low-order model coordinates in turbulent flows. Unlike conventional imaging systems, EBV cameras asynchronously capture…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Luca Franceschelli , Christian E. Willert , Marco Raiola , Stefano Discetti

Particle flows of high particle concentration are important in many fields, including chemical processing, pharmaceutical processing, energy conversion and powder transport. However, despite decades of research and industrial application,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-06 Frank Shaffer , Balaji Gopalan

For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zitang Sun , Shin'ya Nishida , Zhengbo Luo

We address the problem of joint optical flow and camera motion estimation in rigid scenes by incorporating geometric constraints into an unsupervised deep learning framework. Unlike existing approaches which rely on brightness constancy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Shihao Jiang , Dylan Campbell , Miaomiao Liu , Stephen Gould , Richard Hartley

The total variation (TV) flow generates a scale-space representation of an image based on the TV functional. This gradient flow observes desirable features for images, such as sharp edges and enables spectral, scale, and texture analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tamara G. Grossmann , Sören Dittmer , Yury Korolev , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

Extracting information on fluid motion directly from images is challenging. Fluid flow represents a complex dynamic system governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. General optical flow methods are typically designed for rigid body motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mingrui Zhang , Jianhong Wang , James Tlhomole , Matthew D. Piggott

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) typically relies on cross-correlation,which makes it difficult to obtain instantaneous velocity fields that are both spatially dense and available in real time at high acquisition rates. Optical Flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Juan Pimienta , Jean-Luc Aider

Unsupervised learning of optical flow, which leverages the supervision from view synthesis, has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods. However, the objective of unsupervised learning is likely to be unreliable in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Liang Liu , Jiangning Zhang , Ruifei He , Yong Liu , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) estimates velocities through correlations of particle images within interrogation windows, leading to a spatial modulation of the velocity field. Although in principle Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-14 Iacopo Tirelli , Andrea Ianiro , Stefano Discetti

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

Event-based cameras have shown great promise in a variety of situations where frame based cameras suffer, such as high speed motions and high dynamic range scenes. However, developing algorithms for event measurements requires a new class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

In the era of end-to-end deep learning, many advances in computer vision are driven by large amounts of labeled data. In the optical flow setting, however, obtaining dense per-pixel ground truth for real scenes is difficult and thus such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Simon Meister , Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Classical approaches to Vanishing Point Detection (VPD) rely solely on the presence of explicit straight lines in images, while recent supervised deep learning approaches need labeled datasets for training. We propose an alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Skanda Bharadwaj , Robert Collins , Yanxi Liu

3D particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a key technique for analyzing turbulent flow, one of the most challenging computational problems of our century. At the core of 3D PTV is the dual-frame fluid motion estimation algorithm, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yifei Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Zhou Jiang , Hao Zhao

One of the oldest flow visualization techniques is through multiple pathlines generated by the movement of seeding particles spatially distributed in the flow. In the computerized era, particle images are used in quantitative measurements,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Yukun Sun , Elijah James , Frank Fang , Jasper Agrawal , Christopher Dougherty , Cong Wang , Chris Roh