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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

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 distortion by atmospheric turbulence is a stochastic degradation, which is a critical problem in long-range optical imaging systems. A number of research has been conducted during the past decades, including model-based and emerging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Ajay Jaiswal , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley H. Chan , Zhangyang Wang

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 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 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

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

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

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…

Atmospheric turbulence introduces severe spatial and geometric distortions, challenging traditional image restoration methods. We propose the Probabilistic Prior Turbulence Removal Network (PPTRN), which combines probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Guodong Sun , Qixiang Ma , Liqiang Zhang , Hongwei Wang , Zixuan Gao , Haotian Zhang

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

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

This paper describes a new method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion on observed sequences that include large moving objects. In order to provide accurate detail from objects behind the distorting layer, we solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 N. Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim , David Bull

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

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

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…

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 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

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

Point Spread Function (PSF) for imaging through inhomogeneous refractive medium, such as atmospheric turbulence is bounded by three constraints [Charnotskii, Opt. Eng., 52, 04600, (2013)]. PSF is non-negative, band-limited, and the third…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-06 Mikhail Charnotskii