Atmospheric Optical Turbulence Mitigation using Iterative Image Registration and Least Squares Lucky Look Fusion

Authors

Michael A. Rucci, Air Force Research Laboratory
Russell C. Hardie, University of Dayton
Richard K. Martin, Air Force Institute of TechnologyFollow
Szymon Gladysz, Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2022

Abstract

Excerpt: This paper presents an atmospheric optical turbulence mitigation method that uses a sequence of short-exposure frames. An iterative block matching registration method is proposed for image dewarping. © Optica Publishing Group.

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.467958

Source Publication

Applied Optics

Recommended Citation

Michael A. Rucci, Russell C. Hardie, Richard K. Martin, and Szymon Gladysz, "Atmospheric optical turbulence mitigation using iterative image registration and least squares lucky look fusion," Appl. Opt. 61, 8233-8247 (2022)