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In this paper, we overview, evaluate, and demonstrate the sparse processing particle image velocimetry (SPPIV) as a real-time flow field estimation method using the particle image velocimetry (PIV), whereas SPPIV was previously proposed…

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Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is widely used to measure time-resolved, three-dimensional velocity and pressure fields in fluid dynamics research. Inaccurate localization and tracking of particles is a key source of error in PTV,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ke Zhou , Jiaqi Li , Jiarong Hong , Samuel J. Grauer

In recent years, the LiDAR images, as a 2D compact representation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, are widely applied in various tasks, e.g., 3D semantic segmentation, LiDAR point cloud compression (PCC). Among these works, the optical flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Xuezhou Guo , Xuhu Lin , Lili Zhao , Zezhi Zhu , Jianwen Chen

Deep learning-based optical flow (DLOF) extracts features in adjacent video frames with deep convolutional neural networks. It uses those features to estimate the inter-frame motions of objects at the pixel level. In this article, we…

We present a novel architecture for accelerating PIV calculations. An optical flow hardware accelerator does the brunt of the work, with cross-correlation only providing quick corrections. The result is RapidPIV: a free-to-download software…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-28 Scott A. Bollt , Samuel H. Foxman , Morteza Gharib

Unsupervised learning poses one of the most difficult challenges in computer vision today. The task has an immense practical value with many applications in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, as large quantities of unlabeled…

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Unsupervised learning from visual data is one of the most difficult challenges in computer vision, being a fundamental task for understanding how visual recognition works. From a practical point of view, learning from unsupervised visual…

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We describe a technique of image analysis providing the time resolved shape of a water surface simultaneously with the three-component velocity field on this surface. The method relies on a combination of stereoscopic surface mapping and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-18 Quentin Aubourg , Joel Sommeria , Samuel Viboud , Nicolas Mordant

Intrinsic image decomposition (IID) is the task that decomposes a natural image into albedo and shade. While IID is typically solved through supervised learning methods, it is not ideal due to the difficulty in observing ground truth albedo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Shogo Sato , Yasuhiro Yao , Taiga Yoshida , Takuhiro Kaneko , Shingo Ando , Jun Shimamura

The estimation of optical flow is an ambiguous task due to the lack of correspondence at occlusions, shadows, reflections, lack of texture and changes in illumination over time. Thus, unsupervised methods face major challenges as they need…

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Flood mapping is crucial for assessing and mitigating flood impacts, yet traditional methods like numerical modeling and aerial photography face limitations in efficiency and reliability. To address these challenges, we propose PIFF, a…

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Unsupervised deep learning for optical flow computation has achieved promising results. Most existing deep-net based methods rely on image brightness consistency and local smoothness constraint to train the networks. Their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Yiran Zhong , Pan Ji , Jianyuan Wang , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li

Simultaneous measurements, such as the combination of particle image velocimetry (PIV) for velocity fields with planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) for species fields, are widely used in experimental turbulent combustion applications…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-10 Shivam Barwey , Venkat Raman , Adam Steinberg

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing robot vision challenges that describe the critical ability for an autonomous robot to learn to decompose images into individual objects without labeled data. These tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xinyu Zhang , Abdeslam Boularias

Robust model fitting is a core algorithm in a large number of computer vision applications. Solving this problem efficiently for datasets highly contaminated with outliers is, however, still challenging due to the underlying computational…

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Altered hemodynamics play a key role in cerebrovascular diseases such as aneurysms and stenosis. However, in vivo imaging lacks the spatial resolution required to resolve flow dynamics in small vessels. This study presents an experimental…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Job van Essen , Ahmed Sharaf , Denzel Hopman , Selene Pirola , Paola Fanzio

When developing scientific machine learning (ML) approaches, it is often beneficial to embed knowledge of the physical system in question into the training process. One way to achieve this is by leveraging the specific characteristics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-09 Samuel J. Baker , Shubham Goswami , Xiaohang Fang , Felix C. P. Leach

We study the unsupervised learning of CNNs for optical flow estimation using proxy ground truth data. Supervised CNNs, due to their immense learning capacity, have shown superior performance on a range of computer vision problems including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yi Zhu , Zhenzhong Lan , Shawn Newsam , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Particle image velocimetry (PIV) and related optical-flow methods are widely used to quantify fluid motion, but their development and evaluation are often hindered by fragmented software, inconsistent interfaces, and limited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Francesco Banelli , Antonio Terpin , Alan Bonomi , Raffaello D'Andrea