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Optical turbulence, driven by fluctuations of the atmospheric refractive index, poses a significant challenge to ground-based optical systems, as it distorts the propagation of light. This degradation affects both astronomical observations…

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Deep learning-based image compression algorithms typically focus on designing encoding and decoding networks and improving the accuracy of entropy model estimation to enhance the rate-distortion (RD) performance. However, few algorithms…

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Forecast of optical turbulence and atmospheric parameters relevant for ground-based astronomy is becoming an important goal for telescope planning and AO instruments optimization in several major telescope. Such detailed and accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-21 A. Turchi , E. Masciadri , L. Fini

This paper presents a novel approach, termed {\em Temporal Latent Residual Network (TLRN)}, to predict a sequence of deformation fields in time-series image registration. The challenge of registering time-series images often lies in the…

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Just as turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere can severely limit the angular resolution of optical telescopes, turbulence in the ionized interstellar medium fundamentally limits the resolution of radio telescopes. We present a scattering…

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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…

Estimating accurate high-dimensional transformations remains very challenging, especially in a clinical setting. In this paper, we introduce a multiscale parameterization of deformations to enhance registration and atlas estimation in the…

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To effectively mitigate the influence of atmospheric turbulence, a novel discrete-time analog transmission free-space optical (DTAT-FSO) communication scheme is proposed. It directly maps information sources to discrete-time analog symbols…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Hongyu Huang , Zhenming Yu , Yi Lei , Wei Zhang , Yongli Zhao , Shanguo Huang , Kun Xu

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

In this paper, we propose LSRNA, a novel framework for higher-resolution (exceeding 1K) image generation using diffusion models by leveraging super-resolution directly in the latent space. Existing diffusion models struggle with scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jinho Jeong , Sangmin Han , Jinwoo Kim , Seon Joo Kim

The performance of tomographic adaptive optics systems is intrinsically linked to the vertical profile of optical turbulence. Firstly, a sufficient number of discrete turbulent layers must be reconstructed to model the true continuous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 O. J. D. Farley , J. Osborn , T. Morris , T. Fusco , B. Neichel , C. Correia , R. W. Wilson

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

Heat-induced air turbulence produces complex, depth-dependent image distortions that are challenging to reproduce interactively because thermally driven flow must be coupled with refractive light transport. Existing real-time methods often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wanqi Yuan , Ethan Chung , Man Luo , Suren Jayasuriya , Huaijin Chen , Jinwei Ye , Nianyi Li

Super-resolution of turbulence is a term used to describe the prediction of high-resolution snapshots of a flow from coarse-grained observations. This is typically accomplished with a deep neural network and training usually requires a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-29 Jacob Page

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

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…

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Document rectification in real-world scenarios poses significant challenges due to extreme variations in camera perspectives and physical distortions. Driven by the insight that complex transformations can be decomposed and resolved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chaoyun Wang , Quanxin Huang , I-Chao Shen , Takeo Igarashi , Nanning Zheng , Caigui Jiang

We propose a variational regularisation approach for the problem of template-based image reconstruction from indirect, noisy measurements as given, for instance, in X-ray computed tomography. An image is reconstructed from such measurements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Lukas F. Lang , Sebastian Neumayer , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

A novel approach is presented in this paper to improve images which are altered by atmospheric turbulence. Two new algorithms are presented based on two combinations of a blind deconvolution block, an elastic registration block and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Jerome Gilles , Tristan Dagobert , Carlo De Franchis