Noname manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) FOLKI-SPIV: a new, ultra-fast approach for Stereo PIV B. Leclaire · Y. Le Sant · S. Davoust · F. Champagnat · G. Le Besnerais Received: date / Accepted: date Abstract We propose a new paradigm for Stereo Par- ticle Image Velocimetry (S-PIV), in which the three- component (3C) displacement vector is estimated di- rectly in one single step, instead of the traditional S- PIV method in which proceed in two steps: (i) separate cross-correlation of the images of the two cameras, and (ii) stereo reconstruction. In our algorithm, folki-spiv, we search for the 3C displacement of particles in an in- terrogation window defined in the laser sheet plane and formulate a non linear least-squares criterion involving all warped images, from the two cameras at the two time instants. Optimization is done by an iterative de- scent approach originally proposed by Lucas-Kanade in computer vision, but modified so as to produce dense, oversampled vector fields with very limited comput- ing cost. Validation tests show that, depending on the cases, folki-spiv's approach has a similar or increased accuracy compared to state-of-the-art traditional meth- ods relying on the separate two-component (2C) vector calculation followed by a stereo reconstruction, whereas it does not involve any vector filtering or rejection at any stage of the algorithm.
- numerical al- gorithm
- folki-spiv
- linear systems
- piv
- iw grid
- squares criterion
- linear least-squares