Imaging through the Atmosphere using Turbulence Mitigation Transformer
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 three limitations: (1) lack of generalization capability from synthetic training data to real turbulence data; (2) failure to scale, hence causing memory and speed challenges when extending the idea to a large number of frames; (3) lack of a fast and accurate simulator to generate data for training neural networks. In this paper, we introduce the turbulence mitigation transformer (TMT) that explicitly addresses these issues. TMT brings three contributions: Firstly, TMT explicitly uses turbulence physics by decoupling the turbulence degradation and introducing a multi-scale loss for removing distortion, thus improving effectiveness. Secondly, TMT presents a new attention module along the temporal axis to extract extra features efficiently, thus improving memory and speed. Thirdly, TMT introduces a new simulator based on the Fourier sampler, temporal correlation, and flexible kernel size, thus improving our capability to synthesize better training data. TMT outperforms state-of-the-art video restoration models, especially in generalizing from synthetic to real turbulence data. Code, videos, and datasets are available at \href{https://xg416.github.io/TMT}{https://xg416.github.io/TMT}.
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