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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

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

In this paper, we investigate how moving objects can be detected when images are impacted by atmospheric turbulence. We present a geometric spatio-temporal point of view to the problem and show that it is possible to distinguish movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jerome Gilles , Francis Alvarez , Nicholas B. Ferrante , Margaret Fortman , Lena Tahir , Alex Tarter , Anneke von Seeger

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

We design an optical feedback network making use of machine learning techniques and demonstrate via simulations its ability to correct for the effects of turbulent propagation on optical modes. This artificial neural network scheme only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-22 Sanjaya Lohani , Ryan T. Glasser

Face and person recognition have recently achieved remarkable success under challenging scenarios, such as off-pose and cross-spectrum matching. However, long-range recognition systems are often hindered by atmospheric turbulence, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Kshitij Nikhal , Benjamin S. Riggan

Moving object segmentation in the presence of atmospheric turbulence is highly challenging due to turbulence-induced irregular and time-varying distortions. In this paper, we present an unsupervised approach for segmenting moving objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Dehao Qin , Ripon Saha , Suren Jayasuriya , Jinwei Ye , Nianyi Li

Atmospheric effects, such as turbulence and background thermal noise, inhibit the propagation of coherent light used in ON-OFF keying free-space optical communication. Here we present and experimentally validate a convolutional neural…

Correlated imaging through atmospheric turbulence is studied, and the analytical expressions describing turbulence effects on image resolution are derived. Compared with direct imaging, correlated imaging can reduce the influence of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Pengli Zhang , Wenlin Gong , Xia Shen , Shensheng Han

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…

Non-uniform blind deblurring for general dynamic scenes is a challenging computer vision problem as blurs arise not only from multiple object motions but also from camera shake, scene depth variation. To remove these complicated motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Seungjun Nah , Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

Most motion deblurring algorithms rely on spatial-domain convolution models, which struggle with the complex, non-linear blur arising from camera shake and object motion. In contrast, we propose a novel single-image deblurring approach that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Wang Pang , Zhihao Zhan , Xiang Zhu , Yechao Bai

Convolutional neural networks are witnessing wide adoption in computer vision systems with numerous applications across a range of visual recognition tasks. Much of this progress is fueled through advances in convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

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

Although deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable success in removing synthetic fog, it is essential to be able to process images taken in complex foggy conditions, such as dense or non-homogeneous fog, in the real world.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shengli Zhang , Zhiyong Tao , Sen Lin

In this paper, we train turbulence models based on convolutional neural networks. These learned turbulence models improve under-resolved low resolution solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at simulation time. Our study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 Björn List , Li-Wei Chen , Nils Thuerey

Geometric distortions and blurring caused by atmospheric turbulence degrade the quality of long-range dynamic scene videos. Existing methods struggle with restoring edge details and eliminating mixed distortions, especially under conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Tao Wu , Jingyuan Ye , Ying Fu

Photography is the cornerstone of modern astronomical and space research. However, most astronomical images captured by ground-based telescopes suffer from atmospheric turbulence, resulting in degraded imaging quality. While multi-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Joonyeoup Kim , Yu Yuan , Xingguang Zhang , Xijun Wang , Stanley Chan

Fast and accurate simulation of imaging through atmospheric turbulence is essential for developing turbulence mitigation algorithms. Recognizing the limitations of previous approaches, we introduce a new concept known as the phase-to-space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Zhiyuan Mao , Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley H. Chan

In this work, we extract the optical flow field corresponding to moving objects from an image sequence of a scene impacted by atmospheric turbulence \emph{and} captured from a moving camera. Our procedure first computes the optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nicholas Ferrante , Jerome Gilles , Shibin Parameswaran