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Main Authors: Ogren, Alexander C., Feng, Berthy T., Ahn, Jihoon, Bouman, Katherine L., Daraio, Chiara
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09207
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author Ogren, Alexander C.
Feng, Berthy T.
Ahn, Jihoon
Bouman, Katherine L.
Daraio, Chiara
author_facet Ogren, Alexander C.
Feng, Berthy T.
Ahn, Jihoon
Bouman, Katherine L.
Daraio, Chiara
contents Wave propagation on the surface of a material contains information about physical properties beneath its surface. We propose a method for inferring the thickness and stiffness of a structure from just a video of waves on its surface. Our method works by extracting a dispersion relation from the video and then solving a physics-based optimization problem to find the best-fitting thickness and stiffness parameters. We validate our method on both simulated and real data, in both cases showing strong agreement with ground-truth measurements. Our technique provides a proof-of-concept for at-home health monitoring of medically-informative tissue properties, and it is further applicable to fields such as human-computer interaction.
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spellingShingle Visual Surface Wave Elastography: Revealing Subsurface Physical Properties via Visible Surface Waves
Ogren, Alexander C.
Feng, Berthy T.
Ahn, Jihoon
Bouman, Katherine L.
Daraio, Chiara
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Wave propagation on the surface of a material contains information about physical properties beneath its surface. We propose a method for inferring the thickness and stiffness of a structure from just a video of waves on its surface. Our method works by extracting a dispersion relation from the video and then solving a physics-based optimization problem to find the best-fitting thickness and stiffness parameters. We validate our method on both simulated and real data, in both cases showing strong agreement with ground-truth measurements. Our technique provides a proof-of-concept for at-home health monitoring of medically-informative tissue properties, and it is further applicable to fields such as human-computer interaction.
title Visual Surface Wave Elastography: Revealing Subsurface Physical Properties via Visible Surface Waves
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09207