A Unified Feature Extraction Architecture

We present a unified feature extraction architecture consisting of only three core algorithms that allows to extract and track a rich variety of geometrically defined, local and global features evolving in scalar and vector fields. The architecture builds upon the concepts of Feature Flow Fields and Connectors, which can be implemented using the three core algorithms finding zeros, integrating and intersecting stream objects. We apply our methods to extract and track the topology and vortex core lines both in steady and unsteady flow fields.