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Learning and inferring underlying motion patterns of captured 2D scenes and then re-creating dynamic evolution consistent with the real-world natural phenomena have high appeal for graphics and animation. To bridge the technical gap between virtual and real environments, we focus on the inverse modeling and reconstruction of visually consistent and property-verifiable oceans, taking advantage of deep learning and differentiable physics to learn geometry and constitute waves in a self-supervised manner. First, we infer hierarchical geometry using two networks, which are optimized via the differentiable renderer. We extract wave components from the sequence of inferred geometry through a network equipped with a differentiable ocean model. Then, ocean dynamics can be evolved using the reconstructed wave components. Through extensive experiments, we verify that our new method yields satisfactory results for both geometry reconstruction and wave estimation. Moreover, the new framework has the inverse modeling potential to facilitate a host of graphics applications, such as the rapid production of physically accurate scene animation and editing guided by real ocean scenes.
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This work was sponsored by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62002010, 61872347), the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2019-I2M5-016), and the Special Plan for the Development of Distinguished Young Scientists of ISCAS (Y8RC535018).
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Xueguang Xie received her B.S. degree in information and computing science from Inner Mongolia University in 2014 and her M.S. degree in software engineering from Beihang University in 2017. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University. Her research interests include fluid simulation, fluid inverse modeling, and fluid reconstruction.
Yang Gao received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Beihang University in 2019. He is currently an assistant professor with the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University. His research interests include computer graphics, VR and AR applications, and physics-based modeling and simulation, with a focus on fluid simulation.
Fei Hou received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Beihang University in 2012. He is currently a research associate professor of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Beihang University from 2012 to 2014, and a research fellow in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University from 2014 to 2017. His research interests include geometry processing, image-based modeling, data vectorization, medical image processing, etc.
Aimin Hao received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Beihang University. He is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, and associate director of the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems. His research interests include virtual reality, computer simulation, computer graphics, geometric modeling, image processing, and computer vision.
Hong Qin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Peking University, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Toronto. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. His research interests include geometric and solid modeling, graphics, physics-based modeling and simulation, computer-aided geometric design, human-computer interaction, visualization, and scientific computing. Currently, he serves as an associate editor for The Visual Computer, Graphical Models, and The Journal of Computer Science and Technology.
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Xie, X., Gao, Y., Hou, F. et al. Dynamic ocean inverse modeling based on differentiable rendering. Comp. Visual Media 10, 279–294 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41095-023-0338-4
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