Congratulations to Marie-Lena Eckert for winning the best-paper award at SCA 2018 for her submission “Coupled Fluid Density and Motion from Single Views”.
Her work aims for reconstructing fluid flow phenomena with strong Navier-Stokes priors. This makes it possible to compute dense flow fields based on only a monocular video, i.e., an image sequence from a single viewpoint.
Paper Abstract: We present a novel method to reconstruct a fluid’s 3D density and motion based on just a single sequence of images. This is rendered possible by using powerful physical priors for this strongly under-determined problem. More specifically, we propose a novel strategy to infer density updates strongly coupled to previous and current estimates of the flow motion. Additionally, we employ an accurate discretization and depth-based regularizers to compute stable solutions. Using only one view for the reconstruction reduces the complexity of the capturing setup drastically and could even allow for online video databases or smart-phone videos as inputs. The reconstructed 3D velocity can then be flexibly utilized, e.g., for re-simulation, domain modification or guiding purposes.
More information about the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation: (SCA): http://sca2018.inria.fr
