{"ID":2832938,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06024","arxiv_id":"2512.06024","title":"Neural reconstruction of 3D ocean wave hydrodynamics from camera sensing","abstract":"Precise three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of wave free surfaces and associated velocity fields is essential for developing a comprehensive understanding of ocean physics. To address the high computational cost of dense visual reconstruction in long-term ocean wave observation tasks and the challenges introduced by persistent visual occlusions, we propose an wave free surface visual reconstruction neural network, which is designed as an attention-augmented pyramid architecture tailored to the multi-scale and temporally continuous characteristics of wave motions. Using physics-based constraints, we perform time-resolved reconstruction of nonlinear 3D velocity fields from the evolving free-surface boundary. Experiments under real-sea conditions demonstrate millimetre-level wave elevation prediction in the central region, dominant-frequency errors below 0.01 Hz, precise estimation of high-frequency spectral power laws, and high-fidelity 3D reconstruction of nonlinear velocity fields, while enabling dense reconstruction of two million points in only 1.35 s. Built on a stereo-vision dataset, the model outperforms conventional visual reconstruction approaches and maintains strong generalization in occluded conditions, owing to its global multi-scale attention and its learned encoding of wave propagation dynamics.","short_abstract":"Precise three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of wave free surfaces and associated velocity fields is essential for developing a comprehensive understanding of ocean physics. To address the high computational cost of dense visual reconstruction in long-term ocean wave observation tasks and the challenges introduced by...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06024","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06024v1","authors":"[\"Jiabin Liu\",\"Zihao Zhou\",\"Jialei Yan\",\"Anxin Guo\",\"Alvise Benetazzo\",\"Hui Li\"]","published":"2025-12-04T11:23:17Z","proceeding":"cs.CV","tasks":"[\"cs.CV\",\"physics.flu-dyn\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}