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Restoring images distorted by atmospheric turbulence is a ubiquitous problem in long-range imaging applications. While existing deep-learning-based methods have demonstrated promising results in specific testing conditions, they suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xingguang Zhang , Zhiyuan Mao , Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley H. 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

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

Image restoration algorithms for atmospheric turbulence are known to be much more challenging to design than traditional ones such as blur or noise because the distortion caused by the turbulence is an entanglement of spatially varying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Zhiyuan Mao , Ajay Jaiswal , Zhangyang Wang , Stanley H. Chan

Atmospheric turbulence distorts visual imagery and is always problematic for information interpretation by both human and machine. Most well-developed approaches to remove atmospheric turbulence distortion are model-based. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Atmospheric turbulence, a common phenomenon in daily life, is primarily caused by the uneven heating of the Earth's surface. This phenomenon results in distorted and blurred acquired images or videos and can significantly impact downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Xijun Wang , Santiago López-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Although many long-range imaging systems are designed to support extended vision applications, a natural obstacle to their operation is degradation due to atmospheric turbulence. Atmospheric turbulence causes significant degradation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Yuan Xie , Wensheng Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Wenrui Hu , Yanyun Qu , Hanzi Wang

Efficiently exploring complex loss landscapes is key to the performance of deep neural networks. While momentum-based optimizers are widely used in state-of-the-art setups, classical momentum can still struggle with large, misaligned…

Atmospheric Turbulence (AT) degrades the clarity and accuracy of surveillance imagery, posing challenges not only for visualization quality but also for object classification and scene tracking. Deep learning-based methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paul Hill , Zhiming Liu , Alin Achim , Dave Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Atmospheric turbulence in long-range imaging significantly degrades the quality and fidelity of captured scenes due to random variations in both spatial and temporal dimensions. These distortions present a formidable challenge across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhicheng Zou , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

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

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

Atmospheric Turbulence (AT) correction is a challenging restoration task as it consists of two distortions: geometric distortion and spatially variant blur. Diffusion models have shown impressive accomplishments in photo-realistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xijun Wang , Santiago López-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

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

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 (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

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

Atmospheric turbulence deteriorates the quality of images captured by long-range imaging systems by introducing blur and geometric distortions to the captured scene. This leads to a drastic drop in performance when computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

The influence of atmospheric turbulence on acquired imagery makes image interpretation and scene analysis extremely difficult and reduces the effectiveness of conventional approaches for classifying and tracking objects of interest in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Paul Hill , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim , David Bull
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