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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

Purpose: The goal of this article is to introduce a technique to measure the velocity distribution of water inside each voxel of an MR image. The method is based on the use of motion sensitizing gradients with changing first moment to…

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We present an apparatus optimized for tracking swimming microorganisms in the size range 10-1000 microns, in three dimensions (3D), far from surfaces, and with negligible background convective fluid motion. CCD cameras attached to two long…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-13 Knut Drescher , Kyriacos C. Leptos , Raymond E. Goldstein

We measure the deformation of particles made of several slender arms in a two-dimensional (2D) linear shear and a three-dimensional (3D) turbulent flow. We show how these measurements of arm deformations along with the rotation rate of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-02 Bardia Hejazi , Michael Krellenstein , Greg A. Voth

We analyze the dynamics of small particles vertically confined, by means of a linear restoring force, to move within a horizontal fluid slab in a three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous isotropic turbulent velocity field. The model that we…

3D Particle Imaging Velocimetry (3D-PIV) aim to recover the flow field in a volume of fluid, which has been seeded with tracer particles and observed from multiple camera viewpoints. The first step of 3D-PIV is to reconstruct the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Katrin Lasinger , Christoph Vogel , Thomas Pock , Konrad Schindler

The standard approach to densely reconstruct the motion in a volume of fluid is to inject high-contrast tracer particles and record their motion with multiple high-speed cameras. Almost all existing work processes the acquired multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Katrin Lasinger , Christoph Vogel , Thomas Pock , Konrad Schindler

Flow visualization technologies such as particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) are broadly used in understanding the all-pervasiveness three-dimensional (3D) turbulent flow from nature and industrial processes. Despite the advances in 3D…

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Novel experimental modalities acquire spatially resolved velocity measurements for steady state and transient flows which are of interest for engineering and biological applications. One of the drawbacks of such high resolution velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 H. Egger , T. Seitz , C. Tropea

We combine confocal imaging, microfluidics and image analysis to record 3D-images of cells in flow. This enables us to recover the full 3D representation of several hundred living cells per minute. Whereas 3D confocal imaging has thus far…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-19 S. Quint , A. F. Christ , A. Guckenberger , S. Himbert , L. Kaestner , S. Gekle , C. Wagner

Experimental measurements of particle dynamics on the lower surface of a 3D Couette cell containing monodisperse spheres are reported. The average radial density and velocity profiles are similar to those previously measured within the bulk…

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Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is an imaging technique in experimental fluid dynamics that quantifies flow fields around bluff bodies by analyzing the displacement of neutrally buoyant tracer particles immersed in the fluid. Traditional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alan Bonomi , Francesco Banelli , Antonio Terpin

Quantitatively mapping three-dimensional (3D) flow, diffusion, and particle density in crowded living cells remains challenging because most dynamic optical microscopy measurements are effectively planar and existing analysis methods…

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We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

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While the generation of 3D content from single-view images has been extensively studied, the creation of physically consistent 3D dynamic scenes from videos remains in its early stages. We propose a novel framework leveraging generative 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhiwei Zhao , Alan Zhao , Minchen Li , Yixin Hu

Knowing the sea surface velocity field is essential for various applications, such as search and rescue operations and oil spill monitoring, where understanding the movement of objects or substances is critical. However, obtaining an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-01 Karlo Jakac , Luka Lanča , Ante Sikirica , Stefan Ivić

This article describes two independent developments aimed at improving the Particle Tracking Method for measurements of flow or particle velocities. First, a stereoscopic multicamera calibration method that does not require any optical…

A method for particle orientation tracking is developed and demonstrated specifically for anisotropic particles. Using (high-speed) multi-camera recordings of anisotropic particles from different viewpoints, we reconstruct the 3D location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mees M. Flapper , Elian Bernard , Sander G. Huisman

We introduce the first comprehensive approach to determine the uncertainty in volumetric Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) measurements. Volumetric PTV is a state-of-the-art non-invasive flow measurement technique, which measures the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Sayantan Bhattacharya , Pavlos P. Vlachos

Detailed water kinematics are important for understanding atmosphere-ice-ocean energy transfer processes in the Arctic. There are few in situ observations of 2D velocity fields in the marginal ice zone. Particle tracking velocimetry and…