Learning Physics From Video: Unsupervised Physical Parameter Estimation for Continuous Dynamical Systems

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Main Authors: Garcia, Alejandro Castañeda, van Gemert, Jan, Brinks, Daan, Tömen, Nergis
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author Garcia, Alejandro Castañeda
van Gemert, Jan
Brinks, Daan
Tömen, Nergis
author_facet Garcia, Alejandro Castañeda
van Gemert, Jan
Brinks, Daan
Tömen, Nergis
contents Extracting physical dynamical system parameters from recorded observations is key in natural science. Current methods for automatic parameter estimation from video train supervised deep networks on large datasets. Such datasets require labels, which are difficult to acquire. While some unsupervised techniques--which depend on frame prediction--exist, they suffer from long training times, initialization instabilities, only consider motion-based dynamical systems, and are evaluated mainly on synthetic data. In this work, we propose an unsupervised method to estimate the physical parameters of known, continuous governing equations from single videos suitable for different dynamical systems beyond motion and robust to initialization. Moreover, we remove the need for frame prediction by implementing a KL-divergence-based loss function in the latent space, which avoids convergence to trivial solutions and reduces model size and compute. We first evaluate our model on synthetic data, as commonly done. After which, we take the field closer to reality by recording Delfys75: our own real-world dataset of 75 videos for five different types of dynamical systems to evaluate our method and others. Our method compares favorably to others. %, yet, and real-world video datasets and demonstrate improved parameter estimation accuracy compared to existing methods. Code and data are available online:https://github.com/Alejandro-neuro/Learning_physics_from_video.
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spellingShingle Learning Physics From Video: Unsupervised Physical Parameter Estimation for Continuous Dynamical Systems
Garcia, Alejandro Castañeda
van Gemert, Jan
Brinks, Daan
Tömen, Nergis
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Physics
Extracting physical dynamical system parameters from recorded observations is key in natural science. Current methods for automatic parameter estimation from video train supervised deep networks on large datasets. Such datasets require labels, which are difficult to acquire. While some unsupervised techniques--which depend on frame prediction--exist, they suffer from long training times, initialization instabilities, only consider motion-based dynamical systems, and are evaluated mainly on synthetic data. In this work, we propose an unsupervised method to estimate the physical parameters of known, continuous governing equations from single videos suitable for different dynamical systems beyond motion and robust to initialization. Moreover, we remove the need for frame prediction by implementing a KL-divergence-based loss function in the latent space, which avoids convergence to trivial solutions and reduces model size and compute. We first evaluate our model on synthetic data, as commonly done. After which, we take the field closer to reality by recording Delfys75: our own real-world dataset of 75 videos for five different types of dynamical systems to evaluate our method and others. Our method compares favorably to others. %, yet, and real-world video datasets and demonstrate improved parameter estimation accuracy compared to existing methods. Code and data are available online:https://github.com/Alejandro-neuro/Learning_physics_from_video.
title Learning Physics From Video: Unsupervised Physical Parameter Estimation for Continuous Dynamical Systems
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01376