Quantitative evaluation of turbulence compensation

Adam W. M. van Eekeren; Klamer Schutte; Judith Dijk; Piet B. W. Schwering

doi:10.1117/12.2015371

5 June 2013 Quantitative evaluation of turbulence compensation

Adam W. M. van Eekeren, Klamer Schutte, Judith Dijk, Piet B. W. Schwering

Proceedings Volume 8706, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXIV; 87060K (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015371
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

A well-known phenomena that diminishes the recognition range in infrared imagery is atmospheric turbulence. In literature many methods are described that try to compensate for the distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence. Most of these methods use a global processing approach in which they assume a global shift and a uniform blurring in all frames. Because the effects of atmospheric turbulence are often spatial and temporal varying, we presented previous year a turbulence compensation method that performs local processing leading to excellent results. In this paper an improvement of this method is presented which uses a temporal moving reference frame in order to be capable of processing imagery containing moving objects as well as blur estimation to obtain adaptive deconvolution. Furthermore our method is evaluated in a quantitative way, which will give a good insight in which components of our method contribute to the obtained visual improvements.

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Adam W. M. van Eekeren, Klamer Schutte, Judith Dijk, and Piet B. W. Schwering "Quantitative evaluation of turbulence compensation", Proc. SPIE 8706, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXIV, 87060K (5 June 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015371

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