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This paper describes a novel deep learning-based method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion. We have built an end-to-end supervised convolutional neural network (CNN) to reconstruct turbulence-corrupted video sequence. Our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Jing Gao , N. Anantrasirichai , David Bull

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

Turbulence mitigation (TM) aims to remove the stochastic distortions and blurs introduced by atmospheric turbulence into frame cameras. Existing state-of-the-art deep-learning TM methods extract turbulence cues from multiple degraded frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Huanan Li , Rui Fan , Juntao Guan , Weidong Hao , Lai Rui , Tong Wu , Yikai Wang , Lin Gu

Atmospheric turbulence can significantly degrade the quality of images acquired by long-range imaging systems by causing spatially and temporally random fluctuations in the index of refraction of the atmosphere. Variations in the refractive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

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

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

A variety of neural networks architectures are being studied to tackle blur in images and videos caused by a non-steady camera and objects being captured. In this paper, we present an overview of these existing networks and perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Tushar Jain , Madeline Lubien , Jerome Gilles

In many applications of long-range imaging, we are faced with a scenario where a person appearing in the captured imagery is often degraded by atmospheric turbulence. However, restoring such degraded images for face verification is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Turbulence mitigation (TM) is highly ill-posed due to the stochastic nature of atmospheric turbulence. Most methods rely on multiple frames recorded by conventional cameras to capture stable patterns in natural scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoran Zhang , Jian Ding , Yuxing Duan , Haoyue Liu , Gang Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Atmospheric turbulence causes significant image degradation due to pixel displacement (tilt) and blur, particularly in long-range imaging applications. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for atmospheric turbulence mitigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hanliang Du , Zhangji Lu , Zewei Cai , Qijian Tang , Qifeng Yu , Xiaoli Liu

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

Atmospheric turbulence (AT) introduces severe degradations, such as rippling, blur, and intensity fluctuations, that hinder both image quality and downstream vision tasks like target detection. While recent deep learning-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhiming Liu , Paul Hill , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Atmospheric turbulence significantly degrades long-range imaging by introducing geometric warping and exposure-time-dependent blur, which adversely affects both visual quality and the performance of high-level vision tasks. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Junwei Zeng , Dong Liang , Sheng-Jun Huang , Kun Zhan , Songcan Chen

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

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

Atmospheric turbulence poses a challenge for the interpretation and visual perception of visual imagery due to its distortion effects. Model-based approaches have been used to address this, but such methods often suffer from artefacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 P. Hill , N. Anantrasirichai , A. Achim , D. R. Bull

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

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

Long distance imaging is subject to the impact of the turbulent atmosphere. This results into geometric distortions and some blur effect in the observed frames. Despite the existence of several turbulence mitigation algorithms in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Nicholas B. Ferrante , Jerome Gilles

It remains a challenge to simultaneously remove geometric distortion and space-time-varying blur in frames captured through a turbulent atmospheric medium. To solve, or at least reduce these effects, we propose a new scheme to recover a…

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