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Cumuliform Cloud Formation Control using Parameter-Predicting Convolutional Neural Network

Zhang, Zili; Ma, Yue; Li, Yunfei; Li, Frederick W.B.; Shum, Hubert P.H.; Yang, Bailin; Guo, Jing; Liang, Xiaohui

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Authors

Zili Zhang

Yue Ma

Bailin Yang

Jing Guo

Xiaohui Liang



Abstract

Physically-based cloud simulation is an effective approach for synthesizing realistic cloud. However, generating clouds with desired shapes requires a time-consuming process for selecting the appropriate simulation parameters. This paper addresses such a problem by solving an inverse cloud forming problem. We propose a convolutional neural network, which has the ability of solving nonlinear optimization problems, to estimate the spatiotemporal simulation parameters for given cloud images. The cloud formation process is then simulated by using computational fluid dynamics with these control parameters as initial states. The proposed parameter-predicting model consists of three components, including the feature extraction network, the adversarial network and the parameter generation network. These subnetworks form two parallel branches for different functionality-feature extraction and parameter estimation. To solve the challenge of estimating high-dimensional spatiotemporal simulation parameters, we adapt an encoder and decoder network to compress these parameters into a low-dimensional latent space. We train the proposed deep learning model with pairwise data of time series parameters and the corresponding synthetic images, which are rendered by the density fields of the synthesized clouds under different illuminations. In the practice, our method can simulate physically plausible cloud evolution processes and generate clouds with desired shapes for the real-world and synthetic images.

Citation

Zhang, Z., Ma, Y., Li, Y., Li, F. W., Shum, H. P., Yang, B., …Liang, X. (2020). Cumuliform Cloud Formation Control using Parameter-Predicting Convolutional Neural Network. Graphical Models, 111, Article 101083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gmod.2020.101083

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 28, 2020
Online Publication Date Aug 8, 2020
Publication Date 2020-09
Deposit Date Sep 1, 2020
Publicly Available Date Aug 8, 2021
Journal Graphical Models
Print ISSN 1524-0703
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 111
Article Number 101083
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gmod.2020.101083
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1262792

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