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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

Video sequence capturing through refractive dynamic media, such as a turbulent air or water surface, often suffer from severe geometric distortions and temporal instability. While recent advances address mild atmospheric turbulence, no…

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

Video restoration (e.g., video super-resolution) aims to restore high-quality frames from low-quality frames. Different from single image restoration, video restoration generally requires to utilize temporal information from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Yuchen Fan , Kai Zhang , Rakesh Ranjan , Yawei Li , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

The atmospheric and water turbulence mitigation problems have emerged as challenging inverse problems in computer vision and optics communities over the years. However, current methods either rely heavily on the quality of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Weiyun Jiang , Yuhao Liu , Vivek Boominathan , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Atmospheric turbulence poses a challenge for the interpretation and visual perception of visual imagery due to its distortion effects. Model-based approaches have been used to address this, but such methods often suffer from artefacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 P. Hill , N. Anantrasirichai , A. Achim , D. R. Bull

Video restoration aims at restoring multiple high-quality frames from multiple low-quality frames. Existing video restoration methods generally fall into two extreme cases, i.e., they either restore all frames in parallel or restore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jingyun Liang , Yuchen Fan , Xiaoyu Xiang , Rakesh Ranjan , Eddy Ilg , Simon Green , Jiezhang Cao , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Image and video quality in Long Range Observation Systems (LOROS) suffer from atmospheric turbulence that causes small neighbourhoods in image frames to chaotically move in different directions and substantially hampers visual analysis of…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-27 Barak Fishbain , Leonid P. Yaroslavsky , Ianir A. Ideses

Geometric distortions and blurring caused by atmospheric turbulence degrade the quality of long-range dynamic scene videos. Existing methods struggle with restoring edge details and eliminating mixed distortions, especially under conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Tao Wu , Jingyuan Ye , Ying Fu

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

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

This paper describes a novel deep learning-based method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion. We have built an end-to-end supervised convolutional neural network (CNN) to reconstruct turbulence-corrupted video sequence. Our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Jing Gao , N. Anantrasirichai , David Bull

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

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

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 is a major source of image degradation in long-range imaging systems. Although numerous deep learning-based turbulence mitigation (TM) methods have been proposed, many are slow, memory-hungry, and do not generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xingguang Zhang , Nicholas Chimitt , Xijun Wang , Yu Yuan , Stanley H. Chan

Monocular scene flow estimation aims to recover dense 3D motion from image sequences, yet most existing methods are limited to two-frame inputs, restricting temporal modeling and robustness to occlusions. We propose RAFT-MSF++, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xunpei Sun , Zuoxun Hou , Yi Chang , Gang Chen , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Atmospheric turbulence poses a significant challenge to the performance of object detection models. Turbulence causes distortions, blurring, and noise in images by bending and scattering light rays due to variations in the refractive index…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Engin Uzun , Erdem Akagunduz

Most video restoration networks are slow, have high computational load, and can't be used for real-time video enhancement. In this work, we design an efficient and fast framework to perform real-time video enhancement for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Rahul Garg , Andeep Toor , Xin Tong , Weijuan Xi , Andreas Lugmayr , Vishal M. Patel , Anne Menini