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A novel approach is presented in this paper to improve images which are altered by atmospheric turbulence. Two new algorithms are presented based on two combinations of a blind deconvolution block, an elastic registration block and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Jerome Gilles , Tristan Dagobert , Carlo De Franchis

In many practical applications of long-range imaging such as biometrics and surveillance, thermal imagining modalities are often used to capture images in low-light and nighttime conditions. However, such imaging systems often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Kangfu Mei , Yiqun Mei , Vishal M. Patel

In two-dimensional spectrographs, the optical distortions in the spatial and dispersion directions produce variations in the sub-pixel sampling of the background spectrum. Using knowledge of the camera distortions and the curvature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Daniel D. Kelson

While Fourier ptychography (FP) offers super-resolution for macroscopic imaging, its real-world application is severely hampered by atmospheric turbulence, a challenge largely unaddressed in existing macroscopic FP research operating under…

Atmospheric Turbulence (AT) correction is a challenging restoration task as it consists of two distortions: geometric distortion and spatially variant blur. Diffusion models have shown impressive accomplishments in photo-realistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xijun Wang , Santiago López-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

The search for Earth-like exoplanets requires high-contrast and high-angular resolution instruments, which designs can be very complex: they need an adaptive optics system to compensate for the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Lucie Leboulleux , Raphaël Galicher , Eric Gendron , Pierre Baudoz , Gérard Rousset

Random scattering is usually viewed as a serious nuisance in optical imaging, and needs to be prevented in the conventional imaging scheme based on single-photon interference. Here we proposed a two-photon imaging scheme with the widely…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-25 Peilong Hong

Aerial image registration or matching is a geometric process of aligning two aerial images captured in different environments. Estimating the precise transformation parameters is hindered by various environments such as time, weather, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Myeong-Seok Oh , Yong-Ju Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Ground based long-range passive imaging systems often suffer from degraded image quality due to a turbulent atmosphere. While methods exist for removing such turbulent distortions, many are limited to static sequences which cannot be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Zhiyuan Mao , Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley Chan

Atmospheric turbulence in long-range imaging significantly degrades the quality and fidelity of captured scenes due to random variations in both spatial and temporal dimensions. These distortions present a formidable challenge across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhicheng Zou , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Lucky imaging is a technique for high resolution astronomical imaging at visible wavelengths, utilising medium sized ground based telescopes in the 2--4m class. The technique uses high speed, low noise cameras to record short exposures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 T. D. Staley

Since the seminal work of Andrey Kolmogorov in the early 1940's, imaging through atmospheric turbulence has grown from a pure scientific pursuit to an important subject across a multitude of civilian, space-mission, and national security…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley H. Chan

Modern mobile burst photography pipelines capture and merge a short sequence of frames to recover an enhanced image, but often disregard the 3D nature of the scene they capture, treating pixel motion between images as a 2D aggregation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Ilya Chugunov , Yuxuan Zhang , Felix Heide

Atmospheric turbulence, a common phenomenon in daily life, is primarily caused by the uneven heating of the Earth's surface. This phenomenon results in distorted and blurred acquired images or videos and can significantly impact downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Xijun Wang , Santiago López-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

This paper describes a new method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion on observed sequences that include large moving objects. In order to provide accurate detail from objects behind the distorting layer, we solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 N. Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim , David Bull

Infrared (IR) images are widely used in many fields such as medical imaging, object tracking, astronomy and military purposes for securing borders. Infrared images can be captured day or night based on the type of capturing device. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Rania Gaber , AbdElmgied Ali , Kareem Ahmed

Atmospheric turbulence distorts visual imagery and is always problematic for information interpretation by both human and machine. Most well-developed approaches to remove atmospheric turbulence distortion are model-based. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Optical approaches to fluorescent, spectroscopic, and morphological imaging have made exceptional advances in the last decade. Super-resolution imaging and wide-field multiphoton imaging are now underpinning major advances across the…

It is shown that the use of phase conjugation in one arm of a correlated two-photon imaging apparatus allows undistorted ghost imaging through a region with randomly-varying phase shifts. The images are formed from correlated pairs of…

Optics · Physics 2011-06-28 David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

In this paper, we propose a novel method to precisely match two aerial images that were obtained in different environments via a two-stream deep network. By internally augmenting the target image, the network considers the two-stream with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Jae-Hyun Park , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee