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We report a new workflow for background-oriented schlieren (BOS), termed "physics-informed BOS," to extract density, velocity, and pressure fields from a pair of reference and distorted images. Our method uses a physics-informed neural…

We develop a framework for non-invasive volumetric indoor airflow estimation from a single viewpoint using background-oriented schlieren (BOS) measurements and physics-informed reconstruction. Our framework utilizes a light projector that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Arjun Teh , Wael H. Ali , Joshua Rapp , Hassan Mansour

Background-oriented Schlieren tomography (BOST) is a prevalent method for visualizing intricate turbulent flows, valued for its ease of implementation and capacity to capture three-dimensional distributions of a multitude of flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yuanzhe He , Yutao Zheng , Shijie Xu , Chang Liu , Di Peng , Yingzheng Liu , Weiwei Cai

Non-intrusive quantitative fluid density measurements methods are essential in stratified flow experiments. Digital imaging leads to synthetic Schlieren methods in which the variations of the index of refraction are reconstructed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-11 Lilly Verso , Alex Liberzon

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging reconstructs the shape and depth of hidden objects from picosecond-resolved transient signals, offering potential applications in autonomous driving, security, and medical diagnostics. However, current NLOS…

A Tomographic Background-Oriented Schlieren (TBOS) technique is developed to aid in the visualization of compressible flows. An experimental setup was devised around a sub-scale rocket nozzle, in which four cameras were set up in a circular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-20 Joachim A. Bron , Woutijn J. Baars , Ferdinand F. J. Schrijer

Tomographic background oriented schlieren (Tomo-BOS) imaging measures density or temperature fields in 3D using multiple camera BOS projections, and is particularly useful for instantaneous flow visualizations of complex fluid dynamics…

Diffractive optical element based background oriented schlieren (BOS) is a popular technique for quantitative flow visualization. This technique relies on encoding spatial density variations of the test medium in the form of an optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Viren S. Ram , Tullio de Rubeis , Dario Ambrosini , Rajshekhar Gannavarpu

This study proposes a radically alternate approach for extracting quantitative information from schlieren images. The method uses a scaled, derivative enhanced Gaussian process model to obtain true density estimates from two corresponding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-23 Bryn Noel Ubald , Pranay Seshadri , Andrew Duncan

Background-oriented schlieren (BOS) is a powerful technique for flow visualization. Nevertheless, the widespread dissemination of BOS is impeded by its dependence on scientific cameras, computing hardware, and dedicated analysis software.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Diganta Rabha , Vimod Kumar , Akshay Kumar , Dinesh Saini , Manish Kumar

Three-dimensional (3D) density-varying turbulent flows are widely encountered in high-speed aerodynamics, combustion, and heterogeneous mixing processes. Multi-camera-based tomographic background-oriented Schlieren (TBOS) has emerged as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-01 Jiawei Li , Xuhui Meng , Yuan Xiong , Tong Jia , Chong Pan , Jinjun Wang

We build an ultra-high-speed imaging system based on the background-oriented schlieren (BOS) technique in order to capture a laser-induced underwater shock wave. This BOS technique is able to provide two-dimensional density-gradient field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-20 Shota Yamamoto , Yoshiyuki Tagawa , Masaharu Kameda

We propose a dot-tracking methodology for processing Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) images. The method significantly improves the accuracy, precision and spatial resolution compared to conventional cross-correlation algorithms. Our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Lalit K. Rajendran , Sally P. M. Bane , Pavlos P. Vlachos

Seedless velocimetry is gaining interest in many industrial and research applications. We report on a comparative study of time-resolved optical velocimetry using traditional, mirror-type knife-edge schlieren optics versus…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Gary S. Settles , Alex Liberzon

The background-oriented schlieren (BOS) technique with the physics-based optical flow method (OF-BOS) is developed for measuring the pressure field of a laser-induced underwater shock wave. Compared to BOS with the conventional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Keisuke Hayasaka , Yoshiyuki Tagawa , Tianshu Liu , Masaharu Kameda

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging aims to reconstruct the three-dimensional hidden scenes from the data measured in the line-of-sight, which uses photon time-of-flight information encoded in light after multiple diffuse reflections. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Rui Ding , Juntian Ye , Qifeng Gao , Feihu Xu , Yuping Duan

The paper introduces a method for studying flow dynamics using diffractive optical element based background-oriented schlieren (BOS). Our method relies on fringe demodulation using root multiple signal classification technique which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Jagadesh Ramaiah , Sreeprasad Ajithaprasad , Gannavarpu Rajshekhar , Dario Ambrosini

We report a new approach to flow field tomography that uses the Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusion equations to regularize reconstructions. Tomography is increasingly employed to infer 2D or 3D fluid flow and combustion structures from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Joseph P. Molnar , Samuel J. Grauer

Reconstructing fluid flows from sparse sensor measurements is a fundamental challenge in science and engineering. Widely separated measurements and complex, multiscale dynamics make accurate recovery of fine-scale structures difficult. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Maksym Veremchuk , K. Andrea Scott , Zhao Pan

We report a novel "cone-ray" model of background-oriented schlieren (BOS) imaging that accounts for depth-of-field effects. Reconstructions of the density field performed with this model are far more robust to the blur associated with a…

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