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State-of-the-art atmospheric turbulence image restoration methods utilize standard image processing tools such as optical flow, lucky region and blind deconvolution to restore the images. While promising results have been reported over the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Nicholas Chimitt , Zhiyuan Mao , Guanzhe Hong , Stanley H. Chan

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

Atmospheric turbulence degrades image quality by introducing blur and geometric tilt distortions, posing significant challenges to downstream computer vision tasks. Existing single-image and multi-frame methods struggle with the highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yixing Liu , Minggui Teng , Yifei Xia , Peiqi Duan , Boxin Shi

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

Atmospheric turbulence is a major source of image degradation in long-range imaging systems. Although numerous deep learning-based turbulence mitigation (TM) methods have been proposed, many are slow, memory-hungry, and do not generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xingguang Zhang , Nicholas Chimitt , Xijun Wang , Yu Yuan , Stanley H. Chan

We introduce a novel technique to mitigate the adverse effects of atmospheric turbulence on astronomical imaging. Utilizing a video-to-image neural network trained on simulated data, our method processes a sliding sequence of short-exposure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Spencer Bialek , Emmanuel Bertin , Sébastien Fabbro , Hervé Bouy , Jean-Pierre Rivet , Olivier Lai , Jean-Charles Cuillandre

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

We recently developed a new approach to get a stabilized image from a sequence of frames acquired through atmospheric turbulence. The goal of this algorihtm is to remove the geometric distortions due by the atmosphere movements. This method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yu Mao , Jerome Gilles

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

Tackling image degradation due to atmospheric turbulence, particularly in dynamic environment, remains a challenge for long-range imaging systems. Existing techniques have been primarily designed for static scenes or scenes with small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ripon Kumar Saha , Dehao Qin , Nianyi Li , Jinwei Ye , Suren Jayasuriya

A novel approach is presented to recover an image degraded by atmospheric turbulence. Given a sequence of frames affected by turbulence, we construct a variational model to characterize the static image. The optimization problem is solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yu Mao , Jerome Gilles

Atmospheric turbulence severely degrades video quality by introducing distortions such as geometric warping, blur, and temporal flickering, posing significant challenges to both visual clarity and temporal consistency. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhiming Liu , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

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

Long-range imaging inevitably suffers from atmospheric turbulence with severe geometric distortions due to random refraction of light. The further the distance, the more severe the disturbance. Despite existing research has achieved great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Shengqi Xu , Run Sun , Yi Chang , Shuning Cao , Xueyao Xiao , Luxin Yan

Restoration and enhancement are essential for improving the quality of videos captured under atmospheric turbulence conditions, aiding visualization, object detection, classification, and tracking in surveillance systems. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Paul Hill , Zhiming Liu , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Atmospheric turbulence severely degrades video quality by introducing distortions such as geometric warping, blur, and temporal flickering, posing significant challenges to both visual clarity and temporal consistency. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhiming Liu , Zhicheng Zou , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Deep learning provides a versatile suite of methods for extracting structured information from complex datasets, enabling deeper understanding of underlying fluid dynamic phenomena. The field of turbulence modeling, in particular, benefits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Anuraj Maurya

Image degradation due to atmospheric turbulence is common while capturing images at long ranges. To mitigate the degradation due to turbulence which includes deformation and blur, we propose a generative single frame restoration algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chun Pong Lau , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa

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…

Image and video quality in Long Range Observation Systems (LOROS) suffer from atmospheric turbulence that causes small neighbourhoods in image frames to chaotically move in different directions and substantially hampers visual analysis of…

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