Fluid Acquisition

Abstract

In recent years, modeling time-varying 3D fluid surfaces has attracted much attention of many research fields, from physical-based modeling and fluid mechanics to oceanography. While tremendous achievements have been made on developing numerical simulators to estimate fluid surface evolutions, capturing time-varying 3D fluid surfaces is still a challenging problem. This is mainly because wave fronts are often rapidly evolving and the measuring device should not be intrusive to the fluid. Fluid surfaces also evolve under the constraints of fluid dynamics and it is unclear how the basic fluid mechanics can be incorporated into surface reconstruction methods. In this project, we have developed a novel approach for reconstructing fluid surfaces using a special capturing device and a novel scattered data interpolation method.

		Angular Domain Reconstruction of Dynamic 3D Fluid Surfaces Jinwei Ye, Yu Ji, Feng Li, and Jingyi Yu To appear in CVPR 2012 (video1, video2)
		Dynamic Fluid Surface Acquisition Yuanyuan Ding, Feng Li, Yu Ji, and Jingyi Yu In Proceedings of International Conference of Computer Vision 2011 (ICCV 2011) (video1, video2)
		Recovering Fluid-type Motions Using Navier-Stokes Potential Flow Feng Li, Liwei Xu, Philippe Guyenne, Jingyi Yu In Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2010 (CVPR 2010)