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Accuracy

To test the accuracy of mpiv, the PIV standard images were used. The images were taken from VSJ-PIV (case 1 in PIV Standard Project) distributed by the Visualization Society of Japan (http://www.vsj.or.jp/).

For comparison, figure 3 shows the dependence of the r.m.s. error on different algorithms chosen in mpiv, and different window sizes used in the process. Basically, there is no significant difference between choosing `cor' or `mqd' in terms of accuracy. The correlation algorithm is, however, faster than the MQD method, while the MQD algorithm seems to be more robust than the correlation method.

Figure 3: Dependence of r.m.s. error on different algorithms and window sizes
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2006-12-08