# Perceptual Evaluation of Liquid Simulation Methods

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10257 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.10257/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 20 Nov 2020.

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- [Learning Similarity Metrics for Volumetric Simulations with Multiscale CNNs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.04109/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper proposes a novel framework to evaluate fluid simulation methods based on crowd-sourced user studies in order to robustly gather large numbers of opinions. The key idea for a robust and reliable evaluation is to use a reference video from a carefully selected real-world setup in the user study. By conducting a series of controlled user studies and comparing their evaluation results, we observe various factors that affect the perceptual evaluation. Our data show that the availability of a reference video makes the evaluation consistent. We introduce this approach for computing scores of simulation methods as visual accuracy metric. As an application of the proposed framework, a variety of popular simulation methods are evaluated.