Objective This interdisciplinary project, that we have entitled FLUID, aims at studying and developing new methods for the estimation, the analysis and the description of complex fluid flows from image sequences. We propose to devise novel image processing and computer vision methods by using sound methodological frameworks incorporating suitable physical models accounting for the observed phenomena. This domain of research encompasses a wide range of difficult issues and thus will have a significant impact on several scientific and application domains including meteorology, oceanography, and flow visualization in applied fluid mechanics. The project gathers researchers from the fields of image analysis, computer science, applied mathematics, fluid mechanics and meteorology. The consortium is composed of three computer vision groups, a group involved in dynamic meteorology, a group specialized in the study of turbulent shear flows and a first rank company in the domain of flow visualization systems. The first objective of our proposal consists in studying novel and efficient methods to estimate and analyse fluid motions from image sequences. The highly deformable nature of the observed phenomena and the fact that theyare only partially observable raise difficult issues. Nevertheless, the huge amount of data available in the concerned domains (meteorology, oceanography, experimental fluid mechanics), and the mastering of generic mathematical frameworks to design sound image processing methods (variational methods, statistical models) will allow us to devise dedicated fluid motion image processing techniques integrating physical models/constraints derived from the laws of fluid mechanics. The second objective is to guarantee the applicability of the developed techniques to a large range of fluid visualization applications. To that end, two specific areas will be considered: meteorological applications and experimental fluid mechanics for industrial evaluation. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer visionnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsstatistics and probabilitynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesoceanographysocial scienceslaw Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.4.1 - FET - Open Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE Address Campus universitaire de beaulieu 35042 Rennes France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ecole polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau See on map CENTRE NATIONAL DU MACHINISME AGRICOLE, DU GÉNIE RURAL, DES EAUX ET DES FORÊTS France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 17 avenue de cucillé 35044 Rennes See on map LAVISION GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Anna-vandenhoeck-ring 19 37081 Göttingen See on map UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Departamento de informática y sistemas, campus de tafira 35017 Las palmas de gran canaria See on map UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 68131 Mannheim See on map
