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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

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

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

With the prospect of the next generation of ground-based telescopes, the extremely large telescopes (ELTs), increasingly complex and demanding adaptive optics (AO) systems are needed. This is to compensate for image distortion caused by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-31 L. Catala , A. Ziad , Y. Fantei-Caujolle , S. M. Crawford , D. A. H. Buckley , J. Borgnino , F. Blary , M. Nickola , T. Pickering

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

Turbulence plays a crucial role in multiphysics applications, including aerodynamics, fusion, and combustion. Accurately capturing turbulence's multiscale characteristics is essential for reliable predictions of multiphysics interactions,…

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 present a self-supervised and self-calibrating multi-shot approach to imaging through atmospheric turbulence, called TurbuGAN. Our approach requires no paired training data, adapts itself to the distribution of the turbulence, leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Brandon Yushan Feng , Mingyang Xie , Christopher A. Metzler

The search for Earth-like exoplanets requires high-contrast and high-angular resolution instruments, which designs can be very complex: they need an adaptive optics system to compensate for the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Lucie Leboulleux , Raphaël Galicher , Eric Gendron , Pierre Baudoz , Gérard Rousset

We recently developed a new approach to get a stabilized image from a sequence of frames acquired through atmospheric turbulence. The goal of this algorihtm is to remove the geometric distortions due by the atmosphere movements. This method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yu Mao , Jerome Gilles

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

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

Seeing-limited resolution in large telescopes working over wide wavelength range depends substantially on the turbulence outer scale and cannot be adequately described by one "seeing" value. We attempt to clarify frequent confusions on this…

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This technical report presents our solution for the CVPR 2026 UG2+ Challenge Track 3: Dynamic Object Segmentation in Turbulence (DOST). We design a training-free multi-signal segmentation pipeline that combines pretrained motion estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Bolian Peng , Ying Tang , Xu Liu , Long Sun , Xiaoqiang Lu

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

Reflection removal of a single image remains a highly challenging task due to the complex entanglement between target scenes and unwanted reflections. Despite significant progress, existing methods are hindered by the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jichen Hu , Chen Yang , Zanwei Zhou , Jiemin Fang , Xiaokang Yang , Qi Tian , Wei Shen

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

Galaxy surveys demand fast large-scale structure forward models that preserve large-scale phases while providing realistic nonlinear morphology at fixed force resolution. Single-step Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) solvers are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia

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

The weak-lensing science of the LSST project drives the need to carefully model and separate the instrumental artifacts from the intrinsic lensing signal. The dominant source of the systematics for all ground based telescopes is the spatial…

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