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Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is the most commonly used optical technique for measuring 2D velocity fields. However, improving the spatial resolution of instantaneous velocity fields and having access to the velocity field in real time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-04 Juan Pimienta , Jean-Luc Aider

This paper presents a high speed implementation of an optical flow algorithm which computes planar velocity fields in an experimental flow. Real-time computation of the flow velocity field allows the experimentalist to have instantaneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-26 N. Gautier , J-L. Aider

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

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a widely adopted non-invasive imaging technique that tracks the motion of tracer particles across image sequences to capture the velocity distribution of fluid flows. It is commonly employed to analyze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yunzhong Zhang , Bo Xiong , You Zhou , Changqing Su , Zhen Cheng , Zhaofei Yu , Xun Cao , Tiejun Huang

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a method to visualize the flows and quantitatively map the flows. It is used to obtain the instantaneous velocity, vorticity, divergence, shear in fluids, etc. Laser Doppler velocimetry and hot wire…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 S. Anand , R. Poovitha , K. Nikhila

An important tool for experimental fluids mechanics research is Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Several robust methodologies have been proposed to perform the estimation of velocity field from the images, however, alternative methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Efraín Magaña , Francisco Sahli Costabal , Wernher Brevis

Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) estimates the flow of fluid by analyzing the motion of injected particles. The problem is challenging as the particles lie at different depths but have similar appearance and tracking a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhong Li , Jinwei Ye , Yu Ji , Hao Sheng , Jingyi Yu

In the past decades, great progress has been made in the field of optical and particle-based measurement techniques for experimental analysis of fluid flows. Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique is widely used to identify flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Nikolay Stulov , Michael Chertkov

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

This paper proposes a novel particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique to generate an instantaneous two-dimensional velocity field for sediment-laden fluid based on the optical flow algorithm of ultrasound imaging. In this paper, an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Weiliang Tao , Yan Liu , Zhimin Ma , Wenbin Hu

Optical Flow (OF) is the movement pattern of pixels or edges that is caused in a visual scene by the relative motion between an agent and a scene. OF is used in a wide range of computer vision algorithms and robotics applications. While the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Jonas Kühne , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Naoki Kanda , Chihaya Abe , Shintaro Goto , Keigo Yamada , Kumi Nakai , Yuji Saito , Keisuke Asai , Taku Nonomura

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a method of im-aging and analysing fields of flows. The PIV tech-niques compute and display all the motion vectors of the field in a resulting image. Speeds more than thou-sand vectors per second can be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2008-07-24 Alain Aubert , Nathalie Bochard , Virginie Fresse

Particle flows of high particle concentration are important in many fields, including chemical processing, pharmaceutical processing, energy conversion and powder transport. However, despite decades of research and industrial application,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-06 Frank Shaffer , Balaji Gopalan

The performance of a wavelet-based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV) algorithm to extract high accuracy and high resolution velocity fields from particle images in wall-bounded turbulent flows is assessed. wOFV is first evaluated using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-09 Alexander Nicolas , Florian Zentgraf , Mark Linne , Andreas Dreizler , Brian Peterson

Neural optical flow (NOF) offers improved accuracy and robustness over existing OF methods for particle image velocimetry (PIV). Unlike other OF techniques, which rely on discrete displacement fields, NOF parameterizes the physical velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Andrew I. Masker , Ke Zhou , Joseph P. Molnar , Samuel J. Grauer

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Real-time measurement of optical frequency variations (OFVs) is crucial for various applications including laser frequency control, optical computing, and optical sensing. Traditional devices, though accurate, are often too large, slow and…

Contrary to conventional frame-based imaging, event-based vision (EBV) or dynamic vision sensing (DVS) asynchronously records binary signals of intensity changes for given pixels with microsecond resolution. The present work explores the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Christian Willert , Joachim Klinner

Fluid velocimetry is fundamental to a breadth of applications spanning academia and industry, however velocimetry at high temporal resolution is often prohibitively costly. Here, we introduce a Fast and InExpensive Velocimeter (FIEVel)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-31 Robert Hunt , Eli Silver , Daniel M. Harris
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