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    • Oceanography and Coastal Engineering
    • Computer Science and Machine Learning

    Background:

    • Rip currents pose significant dangers to beachgoers, often being difficult to identify even for trained personnel.
    • Existing methods for rip current detection lack comprehensive visualization and ease of interpretation for the general public.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an automated system, RipViz, for detecting and visualizing rip currents from stationary video footage.
    • To improve public awareness and safety by providing clear, easy-to-understand rip current information.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized optical flow to derive unsteady 2D vector fields from video data.
    • Employed pathline tracing and an LSTM autoencoder to identify anomalous flow patterns indicative of rip currents.
    • Trained the autoencoder on normal ocean, foreground, and background movements to establish a baseline for anomaly detection.

    Main Results:

    • RipViz successfully extracts rip current locations and visualizes them overlaid on the source video.
    • The system effectively identifies rip currents by detecting anomalous pathlines, distinguishing them from normal water movements.
    • Automated detection requires no user input, making it accessible for widespread application.

    Conclusions:

    • RipViz offers a promising, automated solution for rip current detection and visualization, enhancing coastal safety.
    • The hybrid machine learning and flow analysis approach provides a robust method for identifying dangerous aquatic phenomena.
    • The system's intuitive visualization has the potential for broad adoption and impact on beach safety initiatives.