title: Water surface modeling from a single viewpoint video.
abstract: We introduce a video-based approach for producing water surface models. Recent advances in this field output high-quality results but require dedicated capturing devices and only work in limited conditions. In contrast, our method achieves a good tradeoff between the visual quality and the production cost: It automatically produces a visually plausible animation using a single viewpoint video as the input. Our approach is based on two discoveries: first, shape from shading (SFS) is adequate to capture the appearance and dynamic behavior of the example water; second, shallow water model can be used to estimate a velocity field that produces complex surface dynamics. We will provide qualitative evaluation of our method and demonstrate its good performance across a wide range of scenes.
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom BA2 7AY. c.li@bath.ac.uk
authors: Chuan
authors: C
authors: Li
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Pickup
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Saunders
authors: Darren
authors: D
authors: Cosker
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Marshall
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Hall
authors: Philip
authors: P
authors: Willis
mesh_terms: D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014741:Video Recording; D014867:Water; D014872:Water Movements
chemical_list: D014867:Water