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In this technical report, we briefly introduce the solution of our team ''summer'' for Atomospheric Turbulence Mitigation in UG$^2$+ Challenge in CVPR 2022. In this task, we propose a unified end-to-end framework to reconstruct a high…
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Adaptive optics (AO) is a technology in modern ground-based optical telescopes to compensate the wavefront distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence. One method that allows to retrieve information about the atmosphere from telescope data…
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Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented performance in image generation, yet they suffer from slow inference due to their iterative sampling process. To address this, early-exiting has recently been proposed, where the depth of the…
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…
We investigate the ellipticity of the point-spread function (PSF) produced by imaging an unresolved source with a telescope, subject to the effects of atmospheric turbulence. It is important to quantify these effects in order to understand…
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Current text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating diverse, high-quality images, yet they struggle to incorporate fine-grained camera metadata such as precise aperture settings. In this work, we introduce a novel text-to-image…
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High precision fast photometry from ground-based observatories is a challenge due to intensity fluctuations (scintillation) produced by the Earth's atmosphere. Here we describe a method to reduce the effects of scintillation by a…