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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

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 address the problem of restoring a high-quality image from an observed image sequence strongly distorted by atmospheric turbulence. A novel algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce geometric distortion as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Chun Pong Lau , Yu Hin Lai , Lok Ming Lui

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…

We present a self-supervised and self-calibrating multi-shot approach to imaging through atmospheric turbulence, called TurbuGAN. Our approach requires no paired training data, adapts itself to the distribution of the turbulence, leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Brandon Yushan Feng , Mingyang Xie , Christopher A. Metzler

In the past decades, the excessive use of the last-generation GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) models in computer vision has enabled the creation of artificial face images that are visually indistinguishable from genuine ones. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Conti , Yassine Mekdad

We describe a method for recovering the irradiance underlying a collection of images corrupted by atmospheric turbulence. Since supervised data is often technically impossible to obtain, assumptions and biases have to be imposed to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Dong Lao , Congli Wang , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

In recent years, deep generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), has grabbed significant attention in the field of computer vision. This project focuses on the application of GAN in image deblurring with the aim of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zhengdong Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used for generating photo-realistic images. A variant of GANs called super-resolution GAN (SRGAN) has already been used successfully for image super-resolution where low resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Akshay Subramaniam , Man Long Wong , Raunak D Borker , Sravya Nimmagadda , Sanjiva K Lele

Facial recognition using deep convolutional neural networks relies on the availability of large datasets of face images. Many examples of identities are needed, and for each identity, a large variety of images are needed in order for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Richard T. Marriott , Sami Romdhani , Liming Chen

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

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

Recently, a surge of high-quality 3D-aware GANs have been proposed, which leverage the generative power of neural rendering. It is natural to associate 3D GANs with GAN inversion methods to project a real image into the generator's latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Xuan Wang , Tengfei Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Yuan Gong , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Cengiz Oztireli , Yujiu Yang

GAN inversion aims to invert a given image back into the latent space of a pretrained GAN model, for the image to be faithfully reconstructed from the inverted code by the generator. As an emerging technique to bridge the real and fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Weihao Xia , Yulun Zhang , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Bolei Zhou , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Turbulence-degraded image frames are distorted by both turbulent deformations and space-time-varying blurs. To suppress these effects, we propose a multi-frame reconstruction scheme to recover a latent image from the observed image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Chun Pong Lau , Yu Hin Lai , Lok Ming Lui

Image restoration algorithms for atmospheric turbulence are known to be much more challenging to design than traditional ones such as blur or noise because the distortion caused by the turbulence is an entanglement of spatially varying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Zhiyuan Mao , Ajay Jaiswal , Zhangyang Wang , Stanley H. Chan

Anonymization of medical images is necessary for protecting the identity of the test subjects, and is therefore an essential step in data sharing. However, recent developments in deep learning may raise the bar on the amount of distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 David Abramian , Anders Eklund

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to a natural image. This property emerges from the disentangled nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

Recent generative-prior-based methods have shown promising blind face restoration performance. They usually project the degraded images to the latent space and then decode high-quality faces either by single-stage latent optimization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Maitreya Suin , Rama Chellappa

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos