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Ground-based imaging systems struggle to achieve diffraction-limited resolution when atmospheric turbulence and photon scarcity act simultaneously. In this regime, conventional adaptive optics, speckle imaging, and blind deconvolution lack…

Approximate deconvolution forms a mathematical framework for the structural modeling of turbulence. The sub-filter scale flow quantities are typically recovered by using the Van Cittert iterative procedure. In this paper, however, we put…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-31 Omer San , Prakash Vedula

Although optical aperture synthesis has been generally regarded as the only access to very large imager for over a century, the problem of phasing all the giant sub-apertures on the scale of wavelength is still prohibitive. Besides, the…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-31 Shuai Sun , Zhen-Wu Nie , Yue-Gang Li , Hui-Zu Lin , Wei-Tao Liu , Ping-Xing Chen

The influence of atmospheric turbulence on acquired surveillance imagery poses significant challenges in image interpretation and scene analysis. Conventional approaches for target classification and tracking are less effective under such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Disen Hu , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

The performance of an imaging system is limited by optical aberrations, which cause blurriness in the resulting image. Digital correction techniques, such as deconvolution, have limited ability to correct the blur, since some spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Amit Kohli , Anastasios N. Angelopoulos , Laura Waller

Recovering images distorted by atmospheric turbulence is a challenging inverse problem due to the stochastic nature of turbulence. Although numerous turbulence mitigation (TM) algorithms have been proposed, their efficiency and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Xingguang Zhang , Nicholas Chimitt , Yiheng Chi , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

Single-frame atmospheric turbulence mitigation is inherently ill-posed due to spatially varying blur coupled with non-rigid geometric distortion. Existing end-to-end approaches trained on flat-field simulations often struggle to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zixiao Hu , Tianyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Wei Li , Guoguo Xin , Xun Liu , Peng Wang

The atmospheric and water turbulence mitigation problems have emerged as challenging inverse problems in computer vision and optics communities over the years. However, current methods either rely heavily on the quality of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Weiyun Jiang , Yuhao Liu , Vivek Boominathan , Ashok Veeraraghavan

The quality of images of the Sun obtained from the ground are severely limited by the perturbing effect of the turbulent Earth's atmosphere. The post-facto correction of the images to compensate for the presence of the atmosphere require…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 A. Asensio Ramos , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , A. Pastor Yabar

The presence of inhomogeneous media between optical sensors and objects leads to distorted imaging outputs, significantly complicating downstream image-processing tasks. A key challenge in image restoration is the lack of high-quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chu Chen , Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a sharp image and a blur kernel from a noisy blurry image. Recently, there has been a significant effort on understanding the basic mechanisms to solve blind deconvolution. While this effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Daniele Perrone , Paolo Favaro

tmospheric turbulence presents a significant challenge in long-range imaging. Current restoration algorithms often struggle with temporal inconsistency, as well as limited generalization ability across varying turbulence levels and scene…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Haoming Cai , Jingxi Chen , Brandon Y. Feng , Weiyun Jiang , Mingyang Xie , Kevin Zhang , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Christopher Metzler

We present a deep-learning approach to restore a sequence of turbulence-distorted video frames from turbulent deformations and space-time varying blurs. Instead of requiring a massive training sample size in deep networks, we purpose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Wai Ho Chak , Chun Pong Lau , Lok Ming Lui

Most existing non-blind restoration methods are based on the assumption that a precise degradation model is known. As the degradation process can only be partially known or inaccurately modeled, images may not be well restored. Rain streak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo , David Zhang , Lei Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Atmospheric turbulence is a serious problem for traditional optical imaging, especially for satellite and aircraft-to-ground imaging. Here, we report a novel and practical phenomenon in which turbulence-free images can be reconstructed on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

Atmospheric turbulence poses a significant challenge to the performance of object detection models. Turbulence causes distortions, blurring, and noise in images by bending and scattering light rays due to variations in the refractive index…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Engin Uzun , Erdem Akagunduz

We present a single-layer feedforward artificial neural network architecture trained through a supervised learning approach for the deconvolution of flow variables from their coarse grained computations such as those encountered in large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-29 Romit Maulik , Omer San

An optical imaging system forms an object image by recollecting light scattered by the object. However, intact optical information of the object delivered through the imaging system is deteriorated by imperfect optical elements and unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 SangYun Lee , Kyeoreh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

Video sequence capturing through refractive dynamic media, such as a turbulent air or water surface, often suffer from severe geometric distortions and temporal instability. While recent advances address mild atmospheric turbulence, no…

Using diffusion models to solve inverse problems is a growing field of research. Current methods assume the degradation to be known and provide impressive results in terms of restoration quality and diversity. In this work, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupete