Ocean Simulation Dataset
The Ocean Simulation Dataset is a collection of 684 synthetic ocean videos equally distributed between sea state 3, 4, 5 and 6. The camera is placed 20m above the water plane and is pitched down 45°. The sensor has a size of 20mm and a focal length of 15mm.
Each video has a different set of parameters used to simulate the ocean and sun placement, allowing for different waves, reflections and water colors. The dataset is separated into 4 different folders, each representing a different sea state of the Douglas scale.
The params.csv files describe the parameters with which the videos were simulated.
wind_velocity is given in m/s, wave_direction in radians [0, 2pi]. wave_alignment and choppiness are simulation variables. These parameters are to be used as is for the simulation in Blender.
Significant Height (Hs) and peak period (Tp) of the waves are provided, they were computed using the JONSWAP model for sea state 3 and the Pierson-Moskovitz model for sea states 4-6.
For each sea state, a .blend file is provided. The renders were done using Blender 5.1. The video files are 20-second, 1920x1080 clips encoded using H.264 (High Profile) at 30 frames per second, packaged in a Matroska (.mkv) container. Please note that these simulations are not guaranteed to accurately depict real ocean waves. Any use of this dataset is required to cite the following reference: The dataset has a size of 31GiB and is hosted on an sFTP server of the University of La Rochelle (France). Please contact nicolas.paris@univ-lr.fr to have access to it. This work benefited from access to the computing resources of the L3i laboratory,
operated and hosted by the University of La Rochelle. It is funded by the French
government and the Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
N. Paris, S. Marchand, P. Gomez-Krämer. Peak Wave Period and Direction Estimation Using 3D FFT on Monoscopic Videos. ICPR (2026).
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