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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…

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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…

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We introduce a novel technique to mitigate the adverse effects of atmospheric turbulence on astronomical imaging. Utilizing a video-to-image neural network trained on simulated data, our method processes a sliding sequence of short-exposure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Spencer Bialek , Emmanuel Bertin , Sébastien Fabbro , Hervé Bouy , Jean-Pierre Rivet , Olivier Lai , Jean-Charles Cuillandre

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 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

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

While Fourier ptychography (FP) offers super-resolution for macroscopic imaging, its real-world application is severely hampered by atmospheric turbulence, a challenge largely unaddressed in existing macroscopic FP research operating under…

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

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

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

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

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

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 causes significant image degradation due to pixel displacement (tilt) and blur, particularly in long-range imaging applications. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for atmospheric turbulence mitigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hanliang Du , Zhangji Lu , Zewei Cai , Qijian Tang , Qifeng Yu , Xiaoli Liu

We address the problem of restoring a high-quality image from an observed image sequence strongly distorted by atmospheric turbulence. A novel algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce geometric distortion as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Chun Pong Lau , Yu Hin Lai , Lok Ming Lui

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

Images captured in challenging environments--such as nighttime, smoke, rainy weather, and underwater--often suffer from significant degradation, resulting in a substantial loss of visual quality. The effective restoration of these degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenfeng Huang , Guoan Xu , Wenjing Jia , Stuart Perry , Guangwei Gao

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

Turbulent airflow in the atmosphere and the resulting random fluctuations in its refractive index have long been known as a major cause of image deterioration in astronomical imaging and figures among the obstacles for reliable optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Marcelo V. da Cunha Pereira , Luísa A. P. Filpi , Carlos H. Monken

Recovering high-fidelity images of the night sky from blurred observations is a fundamental problem in astronomy, where traditional methods typically fall short. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to enhance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamás Budavári
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