no code implementations • 9 Jan 2025 • Ludwic Leonard, Nils Thuerey, Ruediger Westermann
We introduce a single-view reconstruction technique of volumetric fields in which multiple light scattering effects are omnipresent, such as in clouds.
6 code implementations • 31 Oct 2024 • Felix Koehler, Simon Niedermayr, Rüdiger Westermann, Nils Thuerey
We introduce the Autoregressive PDE Emulator Benchmark (APEBench), a comprehensive benchmark suite to evaluate autoregressive neural emulators for solving partial differential equations.
1 code implementation • 29 Oct 2024 • Benjamin Holzschuh, Nils Thuerey
Flow-based generative modeling is a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in physical sciences that can be used for sampling and likelihood evaluation with much lower inference times than traditional methods.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2024 • Qiang Liu, Mengyu Chu, Nils Thuerey
To improve learning the challenging multi-objective task posed by PINNs, we propose the ConFIG method, which provides conflict-free updates by ensuring a positive dot product between the final update and each loss-specific gradient.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2024 • Philipp Holl, Nils Thuerey
In fact, neural networks trained to learn solutions to inverse problems can find better solutions than classical optimizers even on their training set.
no code implementations • 15 Jul 2024 • Qingsong Xu, Nils Thuerey, Yilei Shi, Jonathan Bamber, Chaojun Ouyang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
The MC-Fourier layer is by design translation- and rotation-invariant in the frequency domain, serving as a plug-and-play module that adheres to the laws of momentum conservation.
1 code implementation • 3 May 2024 • Patrick Schnell, Nils Thuerey
Of all the vector fields surrounding the minima of recurrent learning setups, the gradient field with its exploding and vanishing updates appears a poor choice for optimization, offering little beyond efficient computability.
1 code implementation • 25 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.
1 code implementation • 20 Feb 2024 • Bjoern List, Li-Wei Chen, Kartik Bali, Nils Thuerey
The accuracy of models trained in a fully differentiable setup differs compared to their non-differentiable counterparts.
1 code implementation • 8 Dec 2023 • Qiang Liu, Nils Thuerey
As such, it can yield realistic and detailed samples from the distribution of solutions.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2023 • Robin Greif, Frank Jenko, Nils Thuerey
Turbulence in fluids, gases, and plasmas remains an open problem of both practical and fundamental importance.
1 code implementation • 4 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.
1 code implementation • 28 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.
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.
no code implementations • 21 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.
1 code implementation • 12 Oct 2022 • Lukas Prantl, Benjamin Ummenhofer, Vladlen Koltun, Nils Thuerey
We present a novel method for guaranteeing linear momentum in learned physics simulations.
no code implementations • 6 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.
no code implementations • 1 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.
1 code implementation • 2 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.
no code implementations • 2 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.
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.
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.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2022 • Jonathan Klimesch, Philipp Holl, Nils Thuerey
Simulating complex dynamics like fluids with traditional simulators is computationally challenging.
1 code implementation • 14 Feb 2022 • Björn List, Li-Wei Chen, Nils Thuerey
In this paper, we train turbulence models based on convolutional neural networks.
1 code implementation • 8 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.
2 code implementations • 30 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.
no code implementations • 29 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.
4 code implementations • 11 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.
1 code implementation • 5 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.
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.
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.
no code implementations • 1 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.
no code implementations • 1 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.
no code implementations • 20 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.
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.
1 code implementation • 29 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
3 code implementations • 19 Aug 2020 • Stephan Rasp, Nils Thuerey
Numerical weather prediction has traditionally been based on physical models of the atmosphere.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
4 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.
1 code implementation • 30 Jun 2020 • You Xie, Nils Thuerey
We propose a novel training approach for improving the generalization in neural networks.
no code implementations • 16 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.
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.
2 code implementations • 12 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.
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.
4 code implementations • 2 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.
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.
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.
1 code implementation • 4 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
no code implementations • 25 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.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • You Xie, Nils Thuerey
We propose a novel training approach for improving the learning of generalizing features in neural networks.
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.
1 code implementation • 15 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.
1 code implementation • 4 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.
13 code implementations • 23 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.
Ranked #1 on Video Super-Resolution on MSU Video Upscalers: Quality Enhancement (VMAF metric)
2 code implementations • 18 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.
no code implementations • 18 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.
1 code implementation • 6 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.
2 code implementations • 27 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.
2 code implementations • 29 Jan 2018 • You Xie, Erik Franz, Mengyu Chu, Nils Thuerey
We propose a temporally coherent generative model addressing the super-resolution problem for fluid flows.
1 code implementation • 3 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.
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.
1 code implementation • 14 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.
no code implementations • 11 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
1 code implementation • 30 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
1 code implementation • 29 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.