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The algorithm of three-dimensional (3D) particle cloud reconstruction is a building block for 3D particle tracking velocimetry (3D-PTV). In the present study, a new 3D particle cloud reconstruction algorithm, i.e., neural-network-enhanced line of sight (NN-LOS), is proposed to update the traditional method based on Line of Sight (LOS) algorithm. The essence of NN-LOS is to use a matching neural network (Matching-NN) to evaluate whether or not one set of candidate matching being recorded by different cameras with various viewing perspectives is valid. Such a Matching-NN is in situ trained from virtual datasets that are synthetically generated by taking into account both the spatial calibration information and the actual seeding density in one particular experiment setup. This makes NN-LOS be self-adaptive to the measurement configuration, and thus avoids the problem of properly selecting a filtering threshold for the reprojection error in LOS. Both a series of synthetic tests and one surface morphology measurement are taken to prove that comparing to LOS, NN-LOS provides a significant improvement of the matching accuracy at high seeding density. A 3D-PTV measurement of a vortex ring in a synthetic jet is experimentally performed to demonstrate the advantage of NN-LOS. Comparing to tomographic particle image velocimetry, NNLOS-PTV enhances the spatial resolution of the velocity-field measurement and reduces the uncertainty of instantaneous velocity. The performance improvement is further empirically explained by a semiempirical test.
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This work was financially supported by the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Aerodynamics (Grant No. SKLA-20200101), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grants Nos. 12225202, 91952302 and 61935008), and the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant No. 2020YFA0405700).
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Dou, J., Pan, C., Han, Y. et al. Neural-network-enhanced line-of-sight method for 3D particle cloud reconstruction in particle tracking velocimetry. Exp Fluids 65, 59 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-024-03796-y
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