Intelligent Imaging Lab

Imaging through Atmospheric Turbulence

Book and Tutorial

Book Cover

Book: Computational Imaging through Atmospheric Turbulence

Stanley H. Chan and Nicholas Chimitt

Now Publishers, 2023

Publications

Restore What Matters

Restore What Matters: Lessons from Joint Restoration and Recognition

Lanqing Guo, Xijun Wang, Minchul Kim, Yu Yuan, Wes Robbins, Xingguang Zhang, Nicholas Chimitt, Stanley H. Chan, Zhangyang Wang, Xiaoming Liu

Manuscript, 2026

Pupil Design

Pupil Design for Computational Wavefront Estimation

Ali Almuallem, Nicholas Chimitt, Bole Ma, Qi Guo, Stanley H. Chan

OSA Optics Express, 2026

Wavefront Estimation

Wavefront Estimation From a Single Measurement: Uniqueness and Algorithms

Nicholas Chimitt, Ali Almuallem, Qi Guo, Stanley H. Chan

IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2025

Astrophotography Turbulence Mitigation

Astrophotography turbulence mitigation via generative models

Joonyeoup Kim, Yu Yuan, Xingguang Zhang, Xijun Wang, Stanley H. Chan

IEEE ICIP, 2025

MambaTM

Learning Phase Distortion with Selective State Space Models for Video Turbulence Mitigation

Xingguang Zhang, Nicholas Chimitt, Xijun Wang, Yu Yuan, Stanley H. Chan

IEEE CVPR, 2025

DATUM

Spatio-Temporal Turbulence Mitigation: A Translational Perspective

Xingguang Zhang, Nicholas Chimitt, Yiheng Chi, Zhiyuan Mao, and Stanley H. Chan

IEEE CVPR, 2024

Gather Scatter

Scattering and Gathering for Spatially Varying Blurs

Nicholas Chimitt, Xingguang Zhang, Yiheng Chi, Stanley H Chan

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2024

TMT

Imaging through the Atmosphere using Turbulence Mitigation Transformer

Xingguang Zhang, Zhiyuan Mao, Nicholas Chimitt, and Stanley H. Chan

IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2024

FarSight

FarSight: A Physics-Driven Whole-Body Biometric System at Large Distance and Altitude

Feng Liu, Ryan Ashbaugh, Nicholas Chimitt, Najmul Hassan, Ali Hassani, Ajay Jaiswal, Minchul Kim, Zhiyuan Mao, Christopher Perry, Zhiyuan Ren, Yiyang Su, Pegah Varghaei, Kai Wang, Xingguang Zhang, Stanley H. Chan, Arun Ross, Humphrey Shi, Zhangyang Wang, Anil Jain, Xiaoming Liu

IEEE WACV, 2024

PiRN

Physics-Driven Turbulence Image Restoration with Stochastic Refinement

Ajay Jaiswal, Xingguang Zhang, Stanley H. Chan, Zhangyang Wang

IEEE ICCV, 2023

Cn2 Profile

Anisoplanatic Optical Turbulence Simulation for Near-Continuous Profiles without Wave Propagation

Nicholas Chimitt and Stanley H. Chan

SPIE Optical Engineering, 2023

TurbNet

Single Frame Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation: A Benchmark Study and A New Physics-Inspired Transformer Model

Zhiyuan Mao, Ajay Jaiswal, Zhangyang Wang, and Stanley H. Chan

ECCV, 2022

Dense Field

Real-Time Dense Field Phase-to-Space Simulation of Imaging through Atmospheric Turbulence

Nicholas Chimitt, Xingguang Zhang, Zhiyuan Mao, and Stanley H. Chan

IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2022

Tilt-then-Blur

Tilt-then-Blur or Blur-then-Tilt? Clarifying the Atmospheric Turbulence Model

Stanley H. Chan

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2022

Phase-to-space

Accelerating Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation via Learned Phase-to-Space Transform

Zhiyuan Mao, Nicholas Chimitt and Stanley H. Chan

IEEE ICCV, 2021

Classical Approach

Image Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes through Anisoplanatic Turbulence

Zhiyuan Mao, Nicholas Chimitt, and Stanley H. Chan

IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2020

Phase-over-aperture

Simulating Anisoplanatic Turbulence by Sampling Correlated Zernike Coefficients

Nicholas Chimitt and Stanley H. Chan

SPIE Optical Engineering, 2020