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Space-time reconstruction of oceanic sea states via variational stereo methods
Space-time reconstruction of oceanic sea states via variational stereo methods
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Gallego, Guillermo
Yezzi, Anthony
Fedele, Francesco
Benetazzo, Alvise
Yezzi, Anthony
Fedele, Francesco
Benetazzo, Alvise
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We present a remote sensing observational method for the measurement of the spatio-temporal dynamics of ocean waves. Variational techniques are used to recover a coherent space-time reconstruction of oceanic sea states given stereo video imagery. The stereoscopic reconstruction problem is expressed in a variational optimization framework. There, we design an energy functional whose minimizer is the desired temporal sequence of wave heights. The functional combines photometric observations as well as spatial and temporal regularizers. A nested iterative scheme is devised to numerically solve, via 3-D multigrid methods, the system of partial di erential equations resulting from the optimality condition of the energy functional. The output of our method is the coherent, simultaneous estimation of the wave surface height and radiance at multiple snapshots. We demonstrate our algorithm on real data collected o ffshore. Statistical and spectral analysis are performed. Comparison with respect to an existing sequential method is analyzed.
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2012-06
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