Computer Graphics
TU Braunschweig

Tomographic 4D Reconstruction of Gas Flows in the Presence of Occluders


Tomographic 4D Reconstruction of Gas Flows in the Presence of Occluders

We present a method that allows for reconstructing non-stationary, time-varying gas flows around moving objects. Our work extends the background oriented Schlieren tomography (3D-BOS) acquisition technique to capture gas flows also in the presence of occluding objects. An algorithm is presented that exploits the unique properties of BOS background patterns to robustly segment occluding objects. Numerical issues in the refractive index field reconstruction are addressed and successfully solved by the new method.


Author(s):Kai Berger, Bradly Atcheson, Ivo Ihrke, Wolfgang Heidrich, Marcus Magnor
Published:November 2009
Type:Article in conference proceedings
Book:Proc. Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV)
Presented at:Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV)
Project(s): Physics-based Rendering 

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@inproceedings{Berger09Tomographic,
  title = {Tomographic 4D Reconstruction of Gas Flows in the Presence of Occluders},
  author = {Berger, Kai and Atcheson, Bradly and Ihrke, Ivo and Heidrich, Wolfgang and Magnor, Marcus},
  booktitle = {Proc. Vision, Modeling and Visualization ({VMV})},
  organization = {Eurographics},
  month = {Nov},
  year = {2009}
}

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