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Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

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

In this paper we present a new approach to deblur the effect of atmospheric turbulence in the case of long range imaging. Our method is based on an analytical formulation, the Fried kernel, of the atmosphere modulation transfer function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jerome Gilles , Stanley Osher

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

In this technical report, we briefly introduce the solution of our team ''summer'' for Atomospheric Turbulence Mitigation in UG$^2$+ Challenge in CVPR 2022. In this task, we propose a unified end-to-end framework to reconstruct a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhuang Liu , Zhichao Zhao , Ye Yuan , Zhi Qiao , Jinfeng Bai , Zhilong Ji

A central problem of turbulence theory is to produce a predictive model for turbulent fluxes. These have profound implications for virtually all aspects of the turbulence dynamics. In magnetic confinement devices, drift-wave turbulence…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 R. A. Heinonen , P. H. Diamond

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

Atmospheric turbulence degrades the performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication and remote sensing systems by introducing phase and intensity distortions. While a majority of research focuses on mitigating these effects to ensure…

This work explores a novel approach to mitigating turbulence in fusion plasmas through spatially modulated plasma profiles. By imposing a harmonic modulation on plasma parameters, we introduce conditions that alter the propagation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Ilya Shesterikov

We present a framework for inferring an atmospheric transmission profile from a spectral scene. This framework leverages a lightweight, physics-based simulator that is automatically tuned - by virtue of autodifferentiation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 James Koch , Brenda Forland , Bruce Bernacki , Timothy Doster , Tegan Emerson

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

Spatially varying image deblurring remains a fundamentally ill-posed problem, especially when degradations arise from complex mixtures of motion and other forms of blur under significant noise. State-of-the-art learning-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hakki Motorcu , Mujdat Cetin

Controlling UAV flights precisely requires a realistic dynamic model and accurate state estimates from onboard sensors like UAV, GPS and visual observations. Obtaining a precise dynamic model is extremely difficult, as important aerodynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Quentin Possamaï , Steeven Janny , Madiha Nadri , Laurent Bako , Christian Wolf

Adaptive optics (AO) is a technology in modern ground-based optical telescopes to compensate the wavefront distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence. One method that allows to retrieve information about the atmosphere from telescope data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Tapio Helin , Stefan Kindermann , Jonatan Lehtonen , Ronny Ramlau

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

The present study extends the analysis of turbulence-affected beam statistics through a manifold-based statistical framework that unifies probabilistic modeling with geometric interpretation. The spatial intensity distributions, distorted…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Shouvik Sadhukhan , C. S. Narayanamurthy

In this paper, we investigate the extension of the recently proposed weighted Fourier burst accumulation (FBA) method into the wavelet domain. The purpose of FBA is to reconstruct a clean and sharp image from a sequence of blurred frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jerome Gilles , Stanley Osher

Structured light is routinely used in free space optical communication channels, both classical and quantum, where information is encoded in the spatial structure of the mode for increased bandwidth. Unlike polarisation, the spatial…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-08 Asher Klug , Cade Peters , Andrew Forbes

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

The presence of inhomogeneous media between optical sensors and objects leads to distorted imaging outputs, significantly complicating downstream image-processing tasks. A key challenge in image restoration is the lack of high-quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chu Chen , Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui