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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

We present a method that tackles the challenge of predicting color and depth behind the visible content of an image. Our approach aims at building up a Layered Depth Image (LDI) from a single RGB input, which is an efficient representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Helisa Dhamo , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

We propose a novel volume conserving framework for character-water interaction, using a novel volume-of-fluid solver on a skinned tetrahedral mesh, enabling the high degree of the spatial adaptivity in order to capture thin films and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Minjae Lee , David Hyde , Kevin Li , Ronald Fedkiw

Recent advancements in large generative models, particularly diffusion-based methods, have significantly enhanced the capabilities of image editing. However, achieving precise control over image composition tasks remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jinrui Yang , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Soo Ye Kim , Daniil Pakhomov , Mengwei Ren , Jianming Zhang , Zhe Lin , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

This paper proposes a two-stream flow-guided convolutional attention networks for action recognition in videos. The central idea is that optical flows, when properly compensated for the camera motion, can be used to guide attention to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-31 An Tran , Loong-Fah Cheong

State-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms generally consist of at least two successive and distinct computations: a boundary detection process that uses local image information to classify image locations as boundaries between objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michał Januszewski , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , Peter Li , Jörgen Kornfeld , Winfried Denk , Viren Jain

Video generative models have made remarkable progress, yet they often yield visual artifacts that violate grounding in physical dynamics. Recent works such as PhysGen3D tackle single image-to-3D physics through mesh reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hwidong Kim , Yunho Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

The ability to generate virtual environments is crucial for applications ranging from gaming to physical AI domains such as robotics, autonomous driving, and industrial AI. Current learning-based 3D reconstruction methods rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sherwin Bahmani , Tianchang Shen , Jiawei Ren , Jiahui Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Haithem Turki , Andrea Tagliasacchi , David B. Lindell , Zan Gojcic , Sanja Fidler , Huan Ling , Jun Gao , Xuanchi Ren

Live animation has gained immense popularity for enhancing online engagement, yet achieving high-quality, real-time, and stable animation with diffusion models remains challenging, especially on consumer-grade GPUs. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhilei Shu , Ruili Feng , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Understanding what happens inside the rippling and dancing surface of a liquid remains one of the great challenges of fluid dynamics. Using molecular dynamics (MD) we can pick apart the interface structure and understand surface tension. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Edward R. Smith , Carlos Braga

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in many cases requires designing 3D models manually, which is a tedious task that requires specific skills. In this paper, we present a novel method for performing CFD directly on scanned 3D point clouds.…

We present an approach to infer a layer-structured 3D representation of a scene from a single input image. This allows us to infer not only the depth of the visible pixels, but also to capture the texture and depth for content in the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Shubham Tulsiani , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely

In this paper, we propose a convolutional layer inspired by optical flow algorithms to learn motion representations. Our representation flow layer is a fully-differentiable layer designed to capture the `flow' of any representation channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo

In this article, I present recent methods for the numerical simulation of fluid dynamics and the associated computational algorithms. The goal of this article is to explain how to model an incompressible fluid, and how to write a computer…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Bruno Levy

Video diffusion models have achieved impressive results in natural scene generation, yet they struggle to generalize to scientific phenomena such as fluid simulations and meteorological processes, where underlying dynamics are governed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qinglong Cao , Xirui Li , Ding Wang , Chao Ma , Yuntian Chen , Xiaokang Yang

Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-20 Timm Krüger , Stefan Frijters , Florian Günther , Badr Kaoui , Jens Harting

Mathematical modeling of fluid dynamics for computer graphics requires high levels of theoretical rigor to ensure visually plausible and computationally efficient simulations. This paper presents an in-depth theoretical framework analyzing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos

We present a novel framework to explore neural control and design of complex fluidic systems with dynamic solid boundaries. Our system features a fast differentiable Navier-Stokes solver with solid-fluid interface handling, a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-04 Yifei Li , Yuchen Sun , Pingchuan Ma , Eftychios Sifakis , Tao Du , Bo Zhu , Wojciech Matusik

Despite the impressive progress of telepresence systems for room-scale scenes with static and dynamic scene entities, expanding their capabilities to scenarios with larger dynamic environments beyond a fixed size of a few square-meters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Leif Van Holland , Patrick Stotko , Stefan Krumpen , Reinhard Klein , Michael Weinmann