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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…

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Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

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Light scattering inhibits high-resolution optical imaging, manipulation and therapy deep inside biological tissue by preventing focusing. To form deep foci, wavefront-shaping and time-reversal techniques that break the optical diffusion…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Cheng Ma , Fengbo Zhou , Yan Liu , Lihong V. Wang

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…

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In this work, we present and investigate the novel blind inverse problem of position-blind ptychography, i.e., ptychographic phase retrieval without any knowledge of scan positions, which then must be recovered jointly with the image. The…

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Atmospheric Turbulence (AT) correction is a challenging restoration task as it consists of two distortions: geometric distortion and spatially variant blur. Diffusion models have shown impressive accomplishments in photo-realistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xijun Wang , Santiago López-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

This work introduces and demonstrates the first system capable of imaging fast-moving extended non-rigid objects through strong atmospheric turbulence at high frame rate. Event cameras are a novel sensing architecture capable of estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yu-Hsiang Huang , Levi Burner , Sachin Shah , Ziyuan Qu , Adithya Pediredla , Christopher A. Metzler

In this paper, we present a method for single-shot blind deconvolution incorporating a coded aperture (CA). In this method, we utilize the CA, inserted on the pupil plane, as support constraints in blind deconvolution. Not only an object…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Hideyuki Muneta , Ryoichi Horisaki , Yohei Nishizaki , Makoto Naruse , Jun Tanida

Recovering images from optical interferometric observations is one of the major challenges in the field. Unlike the case of observations at radio wavelengths, in the optical the atmospheric turbulence changes the phases on a very short time…

We present a blind multiframe image-deconvolution method based on robust statistics. The usual shortcomings of iterative optimization of the likelihood function are alleviated by minimizing the M-scale of the residuals, which achieves more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-09 Matthias Lee , Tamas Budavari , Richard White , Charles Gulian

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

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…

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I propose a spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) measurement scheme for the far-field imaging of spatially incoherent optical sources. For any object too small to be resolved by direct imaging under the diffraction limit, I show that SPADE…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-01 Mankei Tsang

This paper addresses the problem of imaging in the presence of diffraction-photons. Diffraction-photons arise from the low contrast ratio of DMDs ($\sim\,1000:1$), and very much degrade the quality of images captured by SPAD-based systems.…

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Restoring images distorted by atmospheric turbulence is a ubiquitous problem in long-range imaging applications. While existing deep-learning-based methods have demonstrated promising results in specific testing conditions, they suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xingguang Zhang , Zhiyuan Mao , Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley H. Chan

Image Restoration (IR) methods based on a pre-trained diffusion model have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, they have two fundamental limitations: 1) they often assume that the degradation operator is completely known and…

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Despite super-resolution fluorescence blinking microscopes break the diffraction limit, the intense phototoxic illumination and long-term image sequences thus far still pose to major challenges in visualizing live-organisms. Here, we…

Thermal images from low-cost cameras often suffer from low resolution, fixed pattern noise, and other localized degradations. Available datasets for thermal imaging are also limited in both size and diversity. To address these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Piyush Dashpute , Niki Nezakati , Wolfgang Heidrich , Vishwanath Saragadam

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…

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