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Physics perception very often faces the problem that only limited data or partial measurements on the scene are available. In this work, we propose a strategy to learn the full state of sloshing liquids from measurements of the free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Beatriz Moya , Alberto Badias , David Gonzalez , Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto

In this paper, we deal with the problem to predict the future 3D motions of 3D object scans from previous two consecutive frames. Previous methods mostly focus on sparse motion prediction in the form of skeletons. While in this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Shuaihang Yuan , Xiang Li , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Many current methods to learn intuitive physics are based on interaction networks and similar approaches. However, they rely on information that has proven difficult to estimate directly from image data in the past. We aim to narrow this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Michael Kissner , Helmut Mayer

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

Finding the distribution of the velocities and pressures of a fluid by solving the Navier-Stokes equations is a principal task in the chemical, energy, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as in mechanical engineering and the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Alexandr Sedykh , Maninadh Podapaka , Asel Sagingalieva , Karan Pinto , Markus Pflitsch , Alexey Melnikov

We propose a novel approach for deformation-aware neural networks that learn the weighting and synthesis of dense volumetric deformation fields. Our method specifically targets the space-time representation of physical surfaces from liquid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Lukas Prantl , Boris Bonev , Nils Thuerey

For many of the physical phenomena around us, we have developed sophisticated models explaining their behavior. Nevertheless, inferring specifics from visual observations is challenging due to the high number of causally underlying physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Tom F. H. Runia , Kirill Gavrilyuk , Cees G. M. Snoek , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Traditional computational fluid dynamics calculates the physical information of the flow field by solving partial differential equations, which takes a long time to calculate and consumes a lot of computational resources. We build a fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-28 Qiang Liu , Wei Zhu , Xiyu Jia , Feng Ma , Yu Gao

Estimation of 3D motion in a dynamic scene from a temporal pair of images is a core task in many scene understanding problems. In real world applications, a dynamic scene is commonly captured by a moving camera (i.e., panning, tilting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Zhaoyang Lv , Kihwan Kim , Alejandro Troccoli , Deqing Sun , James M. Rehg , Jan Kautz

In recent years, there has been rapid development in 3D generation models, opening up new possibilities for applications such as simulating the dynamic movements of 3D objects and customizing their behaviors. However, current 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fangfu Liu , Hanyang Wang , Shunyu Yao , Shengjun Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yueqi Duan

3D scene flow characterizes how the points at the current time flow to the next time in the 3D Euclidean space, which possesses the capacity to infer autonomously the non-rigid motion of all objects in the scene. The previous methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

Humans are able to make rich predictions about the future dynamics of physical objects from a glance. On the other hand, most existing computer vision approaches require strong assumptions about the underlying system, ad-hoc modeling, or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Zhihua Wang , Stefano Rosa , Yishu Miao , Zihang Lai , Linhai Xie , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Accurate simulation of fluid flow in porous media is challenging due to complex pore-space geometries and the computational cost of solving the Navier-Stokes equations. This difficulty is particularly important when repeated simulations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Rafał Topolnicki , Paweł Dłotko , Maciej Matyka

We study recovering fluid density and velocity from sparse multiview videos. Existing neural dynamic reconstruction methods predominantly rely on optical flows; therefore, they cannot accurately estimate the density and uncover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hong-Xing Yu , Yang Zheng , Yuan Gao , Yitong Deng , Bo Zhu , Jiajun Wu

Inferring the physical properties of 3D scenes from visual information is a critical yet challenging task for creating interactive and realistic virtual worlds. While humans intuitively grasp material characteristics such as elasticity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Long Le , Ryan Lucas , Chen Wang , Chuhao Chen , Dinesh Jayaraman , Eric Eaton , Lingjie Liu

Learning a physical model from video data that can comprehend physical laws and predict the future trajectories of objects is a formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Prior approaches either leverage various Partial Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nengbo Lu , Minghua Pan

Simulating particle dynamics with high fidelity is crucial for solving real-world interaction and control tasks involving liquids in design, graphics, and robotics. Recently, data-driven approaches, particularly those based on graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Niteesh Midlagajni , Constantin A. Rothkopf

Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

While deep learning has shown tremendous success in a wide range of domains, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical principles in a systematic manner to the design, training, and inference of such models. In this paper, we aim…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Rui Wang , Karthik Kashinath , Mustafa Mustafa , Adrian Albert , Rose Yu

Obtaining system parameters and reconstructing the full flow state from limited velocity observations using conventional fluid dynamics solvers can be prohibitively expensive. Here we employ machine learning algorithms to overcome the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-17 Vladimir Parfenyev , Mark Blumenau , Ilia Nikitin