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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

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

Turbulence mitigation (TM) aims to remove the stochastic distortions and blurs introduced by atmospheric turbulence into frame cameras. Existing state-of-the-art deep-learning TM methods extract turbulence cues from multiple degraded frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Huanan Li , Rui Fan , Juntao Guan , Weidong Hao , Lai Rui , Tong Wu , Yikai Wang , Lin Gu

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

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

Tracking any point (TAP) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, requiring high precision and long-term motion reasoning. Recent attempts to combine RGB frames and event streams have shown promise, yet they typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiaxiong Liu , Zhen Tan , Jinpu Zhang , Yi Zhou , Hui Shen , Xieyuanli Chen , Dewen Hu

Although diffusion-based real-world image restoration (Real-IR) has achieved remarkable progress, efficiently leveraging ultra-large-scale pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models and fully exploiting their potential remain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Purui Bai , Junxian Duan , Pin Wang , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Huaibo Huang

Real-time satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena such as floods, earthquakes, etc. One important constraint of satellite imaging is the trade-off between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Haoqing Li , Bhavya Duvvuri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas

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

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

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 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

Face and person recognition have recently achieved remarkable success under challenging scenarios, such as off-pose and cross-spectrum matching. However, long-range recognition systems are often hindered by atmospheric turbulence, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Kshitij Nikhal , Benjamin S. Riggan

Convolutional neural networks have enabled accurate image super-resolution in real-time. However, recent attempts to benefit from temporal correlations in video super-resolution have been limited to naive or inefficient architectures. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Jose Caballero , Christian Ledig , Andrew Aitken , Alejandro Acosta , Johannes Totz , Zehan Wang , Wenzhe Shi

The recovery of 3D human mesh from monocular images has significantly been developed in recent years. However, existing models usually ignore spatial and temporal information, which might lead to mesh and image misalignment and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Wei Yao , Hongwen Zhang , Yunlian Sun , Jinhui Tang

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 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

Tackling image degradation due to atmospheric turbulence, particularly in dynamic environment, remains a challenge for long-range imaging systems. Existing techniques have been primarily designed for static scenes or scenes with small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ripon Kumar Saha , Dehao Qin , Nianyi Li , Jinwei Ye , Suren Jayasuriya

A novel approach is presented to recover an image degraded by atmospheric turbulence. Given a sequence of frames affected by turbulence, we construct a variational model to characterize the static image. The optimization problem is solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 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