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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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Atmospheric turbulence significantly affects imaging systems which use light that has propagated through long atmospheric paths. Images captured under such condition suffer from a combination of geometric deformation and space varying blur.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M Patel

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

Accurately predicting the long-term evolution of turbulence is crucial for advancing scientific understanding and optimizing engineering applications. However, existing deep learning methods face significant bottlenecks in long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Hao Wu , Yuan Gao , Chang Liu , Fan Xu , Fan Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Yuqi Li , Xian Wu , Yuxuan Liang , Li Liu , Qingsong Wen , Kun Wang , Yu Zheng , Xiaomeng Huang

Developing optical systems for free-space applications requires simulation tools that accurately capture turbulence-induced wavefront distortions and support gradient-based optimization. Here we introduce TurPy, a GPU-accelerated, fully…

Document image dewarping remains a challenging task in the deep learning era. While existing methods have improved by leveraging text line awareness, they typically focus only on a single horizontal dimension. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Heng Li , Xiangping Wu , Qingcai Chen

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

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

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

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
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