Search Results for author: Nils Thuerey

Found 57 papers, 36 papers with code

Symmetric Basis Convolutions for Learning Lagrangian Fluid Mechanics

1 code implementation25 Mar 2024 Rene Winchenbach, Nils Thuerey

Learning physical simulations has been an essential and central aspect of many recent research efforts in machine learning, particularly for Navier-Stokes-based fluid mechanics.

Physical Simulations

How Temporal Unrolling Supports Neural Physics Simulators

no code implementations20 Feb 2024 Bjoern List, Li-Wei Chen, Kartik Bali, Nils Thuerey

We also quantify a difference in the accuracy of models trained in a fully differentiable setup compared to their non-differentiable counterparts.

Uncertainty-aware Surrogate Models for Airfoil Flow Simulations with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

1 code implementation8 Dec 2023 Qiang Liu, Nils Thuerey

Leveraging neural networks as surrogate models for turbulence simulation is a topic of growing interest.

Denoising

Physics-Preserving AI-Accelerated Simulations of Plasma Turbulence

no code implementations28 Sep 2023 Robin Greif, Frank Jenko, Nils Thuerey

Turbulence in fluids, gases, and plasmas remains an open problem of both practical and fundamental importance.

Benchmarking Autoregressive Conditional Diffusion Models for Turbulent Flow Simulation

1 code implementation4 Sep 2023 Georg Kohl, Li-Wei Chen, Nils Thuerey

We find that even simple diffusion-based approaches can outperform multiple established flow prediction methods in terms of accuracy and temporal stability, while being on par with state-of-the-art stabilization techniques like unrolling at training time.

Benchmarking

Learning to Estimate Single-View Volumetric Flow Motions without 3D Supervision

1 code implementation28 Feb 2023 Erik Franz, Barbara Solenthaler, Nils Thuerey

Despite the complexity of this task, we show that it is possible to train the corresponding networks without requiring any 3D ground truth for training.

Solving Inverse Physics Problems with Score Matching

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Benjamin J. Holzschuh, Simona Vegetti, Nils Thuerey

We propose to solve inverse problems involving the temporal evolution of physics systems by leveraging recent advances from diffusion models.

Denoising

Exploring Physical Latent Spaces for High-Resolution Flow Restoration

no code implementations21 Nov 2022 Chloe Paliard, Nils Thuerey, Kiwon Um

We explore training deep neural network models in conjunction with physics simulations via partial differential equations (PDEs), using the simulated degrees of freedom as latent space for a neural network.

Physical Simulations

Guaranteed Conservation of Momentum for Learning Particle-based Fluid Dynamics

1 code implementation12 Oct 2022 Lukas Prantl, Benjamin Ummenhofer, Vladlen Koltun, Nils Thuerey

We present a novel method for guaranteeing linear momentum in learned physics simulations.

Wavelet-based Loss for High-frequency Interface Dynamics

no code implementations6 Sep 2022 Lukas Prantl, Jan Bender, Tassilo Kugelstadt, Nils Thuerey

As an alternative, we present a new method based on a wavelet loss formulation, which remains transparent in terms of what is optimized.

Physical Simulations Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Control of Two-way Coupled Fluid Systems with Differentiable Solvers

no code implementations1 Jun 2022 Brener Ramos, Felix Trost, Nils Thuerey

We investigate the use of deep neural networks to control complex nonlinear dynamical systems, specifically the movement of a rigid body immersed in a fluid.

Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

WeatherBench Probability: A benchmark dataset for probabilistic medium-range weather forecasting along with deep learning baseline models

1 code implementation2 May 2022 Sagar Garg, Stephan Rasp, Nils Thuerey

WeatherBench is a benchmark dataset for medium-range weather forecasting of geopotential, temperature and precipitation, consisting of preprocessed data, predefined evaluation metrics and a number of baseline models.

Weather Forecasting

Leveraging Stochastic Predictions of Bayesian Neural Networks for Fluid Simulations

no code implementations2 May 2022 Maximilian Mueller, Robin Greif, Frank Jenko, Nils Thuerey

We investigate uncertainty estimation and multimodality via the non-deterministic predictions of Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) in fluid simulations.

Temporal Sequences

TemporalUV: Capturing Loose Clothing with Temporally Coherent UV Coordinates

no code implementations CVPR 2022 You Xie, Huiqi Mao, Angela Yao, Nils Thuerey

We propose a novel approach to generate temporally coherent UV coordinates for loose clothing.

Half-Inverse Gradients for Physical Deep Learning

2 code implementations ICLR 2022 Patrick Schnell, Philipp Holl, Nils Thuerey

Recent works in deep learning have shown that integrating differentiable physics simulators into the training process can greatly improve the quality of results.

Simulating Liquids with Graph Networks

no code implementations14 Mar 2022 Jonathan Klimesch, Philipp Holl, Nils Thuerey

Simulating complex dynamics like fluids with traditional simulators is computationally challenging.

Liquid Simulation Rolling Shutter Correction

Learning Similarity Metrics for Volumetric Simulations with Multiscale CNNs

1 code implementation8 Feb 2022 Georg Kohl, Li-Wei Chen, Nils Thuerey

Simulations that produce three-dimensional data are ubiquitous in science, ranging from fluid flows to plasma physics.

Scale-invariant Learning by Physics Inversion

2 code implementations30 Sep 2021 Philipp Holl, Vladlen Koltun, Nils Thuerey

We find that state-of-the-art training techniques are not well-suited to many problems that involve physical processes.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Autonomous Shaping of Latent-Spaces from Reduced PDEs for Physical Neural Networks

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Chloé Paliard, Nils Thuerey, Marco Cagnazzo, Kiwon Um

In contrast to previous work, we do not constrain the PDE solver but instead give the neural network complete freedom to shape the PDE solutions as degrees of freedom of a latent space.

Physics-based Deep Learning

4 code implementations11 Sep 2021 Nils Thuerey, Philipp Holl, Maximilian Mueller, Patrick Schnell, Felix Trost, Kiwon Um

This digital book contains a practical and comprehensive introduction of everything related to deep learning in the context of physical simulations.

Physical Simulations reinforcement-learning +1

Towards high-accuracy deep learning inference of compressible turbulent flows over aerofoils

1 code implementation5 Sep 2021 Li-Wei Chen, Nils Thuerey

The present study investigates the accurate inference of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes solutions for the compressible flow over aerofoils in two dimensions with a deep neural network.

Friction

Self-Supervised Collision Handling via Generative 3D Garment Models for Virtual Try-On

1 code implementation CVPR 2021 Igor Santesteban, Nils Thuerey, Miguel A. Otaduy, Dan Casas

We propose a new generative model for 3D garment deformations that enables us to learn, for the first time, a data-driven method for virtual try-on that effectively addresses garment-body collisions.

Virtual Try-on

Global Transport for Fluid Reconstruction with Learned Self-Supervision

1 code implementation CVPR 2021 Erik Franz, Barbara Solenthaler, Nils Thuerey

We propose a novel method to reconstruct volumetric flows from sparse views via a global transport formulation.

Reviving Autoencoder Pretraining

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 You Xie, Nils Thuerey

The pressing need for pretraining algorithms has been diminished by numerous advances in terms of regularization, architectures, and optimizers.

Frequency-aware Interface Dynamics with Generative Adversarial Networks

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Lukas Prantl, Tassilo Kugelstadt, Jan Bender, Nils Thuerey

We present a new method for reconstructing and refining complex surfaces based on physical simulations.

Physical Simulations

ScalarFlow: A Large-Scale Volumetric Data Set of Real-world Scalar Transport Flows for Computer Animation and Machine Learning

no code implementations20 Nov 2020 Marie-Lena Eckert, Kiwon Um, Nils Thuerey

In this paper, we present ScalarFlow, a first large-scale data set of reconstructions of real-world smoke plumes.

Neural Scene Graphs for Dynamic Scenes

2 code implementations CVPR 2021 Julian Ost, Fahim Mannan, Nils Thuerey, Julian Knodt, Felix Heide

Recent implicit neural rendering methods have demonstrated that it is possible to learn accurate view synthesis for complex scenes by predicting their volumetric density and color supervised solely by a set of RGB images.

Neural Rendering

Numerical investigation of minimum drag profiles in laminar flow using deep learning surrogates

1 code implementation29 Sep 2020 Li-Wei Chen, Berkay Alp Cakal, Xiangyu Hu, Nils Thuerey

In the present study, U-net based deep neural network (DNN) models are trained with high-fidelity datasets to infer flow fields, and then employed as surrogate models to carry out the shape optimisation problem, i. e. to find a drag minimal profile with a fixed cross-section area subjected to a two-dimensional steady laminar flow.

Fluid Dynamics

Purely data-driven medium-range weather forecasting achieves comparable skill to physical models at similar resolution

3 code implementations19 Aug 2020 Stephan Rasp, Nils Thuerey

Numerical weather prediction has traditionally been based on physical models of the atmosphere.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

Solver-in-the-Loop: Learning from Differentiable Physics to Interact with Iterative PDE-Solvers

3 code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Kiwon Um, Robert Brand, Yun, Fei, Philipp Holl, Nils Thuerey

Finding accurate solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) is a crucial task in all scientific and engineering disciplines.

Data-driven Regularization via Racecar Training for Generalizing Neural Networks

1 code implementation30 Jun 2020 You Xie, Nils Thuerey

We propose a novel training approach for improving the generalization in neural networks.

A Combined Data-driven and Physics-driven Method for Steady Heat Conduction Prediction using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations16 May 2020 Hao Ma, Xiangyu Hu, Yuxuan Zhang, Nils Thuerey, Oskar J. Haidn

For the data-driven based method, the introduction of physical equation not only is able to speed up the convergence, but also produces physically more consistent solutions.

Lagrangian Fluid Simulation with Continuous Convolutions

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Benjamin Ummenhofer, Lukas Prantl, Nils Thuerey, Vladlen Koltun

We present an approach to Lagrangian fluid simulation with a new type of convolutional network.

Latent Space Subdivision: Stable and Controllable Time Predictions for Fluid Flow

2 code implementations12 Mar 2020 Steffen Wiewel, Byung-soo Kim, Vinicius C. Azevedo, Barbara Solenthaler, Nils Thuerey

By selectively overwriting parts of the predicted latent space points, our proposed method is capable to robustly predict long-term sequences of complex physics problems.

Learning Similarity Metrics for Numerical Simulations

1 code implementation ICML 2020 Georg Kohl, Kiwon Um, Nils Thuerey

We propose a neural network-based approach that computes a stable and generalizing metric (LSiM) to compare data from a variety of numerical simulation sources.

WeatherBench: A benchmark dataset for data-driven weather forecasting

3 code implementations2 Feb 2020 Stephan Rasp, Peter D. Dueben, Sebastian Scher, Jonathan A. Weyn, Soukayna Mouatadid, Nils Thuerey

Data-driven approaches, most prominently deep learning, have become powerful tools for prediction in many domains.

Weather Forecasting

Learning to Control PDEs with Differentiable Physics

1 code implementation ICLR 2020 Philipp Holl, Vladlen Koltun, Nils Thuerey

Predicting outcomes and planning interactions with the physical world are long-standing goals for machine learning.

Learning Time-Aware Assistance Functions for Numerical Fluid Solvers

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Kiwon Um, Yun (Raymond) Fei, Philipp Holl, Nils Thuerey

While our approach is very general and applicable to arbitrary partial differential equation models, we specifically highlight gains in accuracy for fluid flow simulations.

Sparse Surface Constraints for Combining Physics-based Elasticity Simulation and Correspondence-Free Object Reconstruction

1 code implementation4 Oct 2019 Sebastian Weiss, Robert Maier, Rüdiger Westermann, Daniel Cremers, Nils Thuerey

In a number of tests using synthetic datasets and real-world measurements, we analyse the robustness of our approach and the convergence behavior of the numerical optimization scheme.

Graphics I.6

Learning General and Reusable Features via Racecar-Training

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 You Xie, Nils Thuerey

We propose a novel training approach for improving the learning of generalizing features in neural networks.

Stochastic Neural Physics Predictor

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Piotr Tatarczyk, Damian Mrowca, Li Fei-Fei, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Nils Thuerey

Recently, neural-network based forward dynamics models have been proposed that attempt to learn the dynamics of physical systems in a deterministic way.

Tranquil Clouds: Neural Networks for Learning Temporally Coherent Features in Point Clouds

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Lukas Prantl, Nuttapong Chentanez, Stefan Jeschke, Nils Thuerey

Point clouds, as a form of Lagrangian representation, allow for powerful and flexible applications in a large number of computational disciplines.

Super-Resolution

Volumetric Isosurface Rendering with Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution

1 code implementation15 Jun 2019 Sebastian Weiss, Mengyu Chu, Nils Thuerey, Rüdiger Westermann

With the advent of deep learning networks, a number of architectures have been proposed recently to infer missing samples in multi-dimensional fields, for applications such as image super-resolution and scan completion.

Image Super-Resolution

A Multi-Pass GAN for Fluid Flow Super-Resolution

1 code implementation4 Jun 2019 Maximilian Werhahn, You Xie, Mengyu Chu, Nils Thuerey

We propose a novel method to up-sample volumetric functions with generative neural networks using several orthogonal passes.

Super-Resolution

Learning Temporal Coherence via Self-Supervision for GAN-based Video Generation

13 code implementations23 Nov 2018 Mengyu Chu, You Xie, Jonas Mayer, Laura Leal-Taixé, Nils Thuerey

Additionally, we propose a first set of metrics to quantitatively evaluate the accuracy as well as the perceptual quality of the temporal evolution.

Image Super-Resolution Motion Compensation +3

Deep Learning Methods for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Simulations of Airfoil Flows

2 code implementations18 Oct 2018 Nils Thuerey, Konstantin Weissenow, Lukas Prantl, Xiangyu Hu

With this study we investigate the accuracy of deep learning models for the inference of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes solutions.

Coupled Fluid Density and Motion from Single Views

no code implementations18 Jun 2018 Marie-Lena Eckert, Wolfgang Heidrich, Nils Thuerey

We present a novel method to reconstruct a fluid's 3D density and motion based on just a single sequence of images.

Deep Fluids: A Generative Network for Parameterized Fluid Simulations

1 code implementation6 Jun 2018 Byung-soo Kim, Vinicius C. Azevedo, Nils Thuerey, Theodore Kim, Markus Gross, Barbara Solenthaler

This paper presents a novel generative model to synthesize fluid simulations from a set of reduced parameters.

Latent-space Physics: Towards Learning the Temporal Evolution of Fluid Flow

2 code implementations27 Feb 2018 Steffen Wiewel, Moritz Becher, Nils Thuerey

We propose a method for the data-driven inference of temporal evolutions of physical functions with deep learning.

Dimensionality Reduction

Data-Driven Synthesis of Smoke Flows with CNN-based Feature Descriptors

1 code implementation3 May 2017 Mengyu Chu, Nils Thuerey

With the help of this patch advection, we generate stable space-time data sets from detailed fluids for our repositories.

Generating Liquid Simulations with Deformation-aware Neural Networks

no code implementations ICLR 2019 Lukas Prantl, Boris Bonev, Nils Thuerey

Our algorithm captures these complex phenomena in two stages: a first neural network computes a weighting function for a set of pre-computed deformations, while a second network directly generates a deformation field for refining the surface.

Liquid Splash Modeling with Neural Networks

1 code implementation14 Apr 2017 Kiwon Um, Xiangyu Hu, Nils Thuerey

We use neural networks to model the regression of splash formation using a classifier together with a velocity modifier.

regression

Primal-Dual Optimization for Fluids

no code implementations11 Nov 2016 Tiffany Inglis, Marie-Lena Eckert, James Gregson, Nils Thuerey

While our method is generally applicable to many problems in fluid simulations, we focus on the two topics of fluid guiding and separating solid-wall boundary conditions.

Graphics I.6.8; I.3.7; G.1.6

Interpolations of Smoke and Liquid Simulations

1 code implementation30 Aug 2016 Nils Thuerey

We present a novel method to interpolate smoke and liquid simulations in order to perform data-driven fluid simulations.

Graphics I.6.8; I.3.7

SMASH: Physics-guided Reconstruction of Collisions from Videos

1 code implementation29 Mar 2016 Aron Monszpart, Nils Thuerey, Niloy J. Mitra

Authoring even two body collisions in the real world can be difficult, as one has to get timing and the object trajectories to be correctly synchronized.

3D Reconstruction valid

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