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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

Deep learning provides a versatile suite of methods for extracting structured information from complex datasets, enabling deeper understanding of underlying fluid dynamic phenomena. The field of turbulence modeling, in particular, benefits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Anuraj Maurya

Image distortion by atmospheric turbulence is a stochastic degradation, which is a critical problem in long-range optical imaging systems. A number of research has been conducted during the past decades, including model-based and emerging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Ajay Jaiswal , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley H. Chan , Zhangyang Wang

This paper describes a new method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion on observed sequences that include large moving objects. In order to provide accurate detail from objects behind the distorting layer, we solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 N. Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim , David Bull

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…

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

Recovering images distorted by atmospheric turbulence is a challenging inverse problem due to the stochastic nature of turbulence. Although numerous turbulence mitigation (TM) algorithms have been proposed, their efficiency and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Xingguang Zhang , Nicholas Chimitt , Yiheng Chi , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

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

Image degradation due to atmospheric turbulence is common while capturing images at long ranges. To mitigate the degradation due to turbulence which includes deformation and blur, we propose a generative single frame restoration algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chun Pong Lau , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa

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

In many practical applications of long-range imaging such as biometrics and surveillance, thermal imagining modalities are often used to capture images in low-light and nighttime conditions. However, such imaging systems often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Kangfu Mei , Yiqun Mei , Vishal M. Patel

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

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

Correlated imaging through atmospheric turbulence is studied, and the analytical expressions describing turbulence effects on image resolution are derived. Compared with direct imaging, correlated imaging can reduce the influence of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Pengli Zhang , Wenlin Gong , Xia Shen , Shensheng Han

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 degrades image quality by introducing blur and geometric tilt distortions, posing significant challenges to downstream computer vision tasks. Existing single-image and multi-frame methods struggle with the highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yixing Liu , Minggui Teng , Yifei Xia , Peiqi Duan , Boxin Shi

We design an optical feedback network making use of machine learning techniques and demonstrate via simulations its ability to correct for the effects of turbulent propagation on optical modes. This artificial neural network scheme only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-22 Sanjaya Lohani , Ryan T. Glasser

Since the seminal work of Andrey Kolmogorov in the early 1940's, imaging through atmospheric turbulence has grown from a pure scientific pursuit to an important subject across a multitude of civilian, space-mission, and national security…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley H. Chan

We describe a method for recovering the irradiance underlying a collection of images corrupted by atmospheric turbulence. Since supervised data is often technically impossible to obtain, assumptions and biases have to be imposed to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Dong Lao , Congli Wang , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Mary Joe Medlej , Rahul Srinivasan , Simon Prunet , Aziz Ziad , Christophe Giordano