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Accurate prediction of atmospheric optical turbulence in localized environments is essential for estimating the performance of free-space optical systems. Macro-meteorological models developed to predict turbulent effects in one environment…
This technical report presents our solution for the CVPR 2026 UG2+ Challenge Track 3: Dynamic Object Segmentation in Turbulence (DOST). We design a training-free multi-signal segmentation pipeline that combines pretrained motion estimation,…
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We investigate methods to calibrate the non-common path aberrations at an adaptive optics system having a wavefront-correcting device working at an extremely high resolution (larger than 150x150). We use focal-plane images collected…
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In this article, we consider the problem of estimating fractional processes based on noisy high-frequency data. Generalizing the idea of pre-averaging to a fractional setting, we exhibit a sequence of consistent estimators for the unknown…