English
Related papers

Related papers: Single Frame Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation: A …

200 papers

Imaging at a long distance often requires advanced image restoration algorithms to compensate for the distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence. However, unlike many standard restoration problems such as deconvolution, the forward image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Stanley H. Chan

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

Turbulent airflow in the atmosphere and the resulting random fluctuations in its refractive index have long been known as a major cause of image deterioration in astronomical imaging and figures among the obstacles for reliable optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Marcelo V. da Cunha Pereira , Luísa A. P. Filpi , Carlos H. Monken

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 present a new method for the generation of atmospheric turbulence phase screens based on the frequency shift property of the Fourier transform. This method produces low spatial frequency distortions without additional computation time…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Daniel A. Paulson , Chensheng Wu , Christopher C. Davis

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

The evolution of high dimensional entanglement in atmospheric turbulence is investigated. We study the effects of turbulence on photonic states generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, both theoretically and experimentally. One…

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

Synthetic turbulence models are a useful tool that provide realistic representations of turbulence, necessary to test theoretical results, to serve as background fields in some numerical simulations, and to test analysis tools. Models of 1D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-15 Francesco Malara , Francesca Di Mare , Giuseppina Nigro , Luca Sorriso-Valvo

In this paper, we address the problem of dynamic scene deblurring in the presence of motion blur. Restoration of images affected by severe blur necessitates a network design with a large receptive field, which existing networks attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

Atmospheric turbulence characterization is crucial for technologies like free-space optical communications. Existing methods using a spatially-integrated one-dimensional (1D) orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum, P(m), obscure the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Wenjie Jiang , Mingjian Cheng , Lixin Guo , Andrew Forbes

New experimental technique have been proposed to discuss the turbulence impact reduction using beam shaping technique. In first phase of experiments, turbulence Impacted Vortex beam shaping technique has been introduced for a propagating…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shouvik Sadhukhan , C. S. Narayanamurthy

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

Atmospheric tomography, the problem of reconstructing atmospheric turbulence profiles from wavefront sensor measurements, is an integral part of many adaptive optics systems used for enhancing the image quality of ground-based telescopes.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Lukas Weissinger , Simon Hubmer , Bernadett Stadler , Ronny Ramlau

Engineering design and scientific analysis rely upon computer simulations of turbulent fluid flows using turbulence models. These turbulence models are empirical and approximate, leading to large uncertainties in their predictions that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-28 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

We describe a new model for image propagation through open air in the presence of changes in the index of refraction (e.g. due to turbulence) using the theory of optimal transport. We describe the relationship between photon density, or…

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 is notoriously difficult to model due to its multi-scale nature and sensitivity to small perturbations. Classical solvers of turbulence simulation generally operate on finer grids and are computationally inefficient. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-12 Yuchen Dang , Zheyuan Hu , Miles Cranmer , Michael Eickenberg , Shirley Ho

Atmospheric turbulence has a degrading effect on the image quality of long-range observation systems. As a result of various elements such as temperature, wind velocity, humidity, etc., turbulence is characterized by random fluctuations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Engin Uzun , Ahmet Anil Dursun , Erdem Akagunduz

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