An Adaptive Image Registration Technique to Remove Atmospheric Turbulence

  • Akshay Patel Post Graduate Student
  • Dippal Israni Assistant Professor
  • Nerella Arun Mani Kumar Member (Research Staff)
  • Chintan Bhatt Assistant Professor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.19139/soic.v7i2.432
Keywords: Heat scintillation, atmospheric turbulence, motion vector calculation, registration, blind iterations, optical flow

Abstract

Turbulence/Heat Scintillations is the change that arises in the refraction index of air with the temperature. The distortion created by the atmospheric turbulence is proportional to the distance between object and camera. In last few years, several approaches have been proposed to estimate and eliminate geometric distortion and blur. In this paper, a novel technique is proposed that improves the visual quality of video sequences affected by atmospheric turbulence. The proposed method is based on adaptive control grid interpolation (CGI). CGI approximates accurate motion vectors to generate a geometrically correct frame using certain reference frames. For high scintillation sequences, CGI doesn’t mitigate scintillations completely. The new methodology is proposed with updated trajectory estimation. The proposed method can effectively reduce the influence even for high atmospheric turbulence. Experimental results also prove that proposed approach is time efficient compared to traditional CGI.

Author Biographies

Akshay Patel, Post Graduate Student
Mr. Akshay Patel is currently doing his Post Graduation in Computer Engineering from Chandubhai S Patel Institute of Technology. His research area includes Computer Vision. Image Processing, Machine Learning.
Dippal Israni, Assistant Professor
Dippal Israni is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Chandubhai S. Patel Institute of Technology, CHARUSAT, Gujarat. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat (India), and Master of Technology degree in Computer Engineering from Dharmsinh Desai University, Gujarat (India). His research interests are Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning.
Nerella Arun Mani Kumar, Member (Research Staff)
Nerella Arun Mani Kumar is working as an Member(Research Staff) at Central Research Laboratory, Bharat Electronics Limited. His research interests are Hardware Design, Image Processing and Machine Learning.
Chintan Bhatt, Assistant Professor
Prof. Chintan Bhatt is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering department, Chandubhai S. Patel Institute of Technology, CHARUSAT. He is a member of IEEE, EAI, ACM, CSI, AIRCC (Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center) and IAENG (International Association of Engineers). His areas of interest include Data Mining, Web Mining, Networking, Security Mobile Computing, Big Data, Image Processing and Software Engineering. He has more than 4 years of teaching experience and research experience, having good teaching and research interests.

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Published
2019-05-19
How to Cite
Patel, A., Israni, D., Mani Kumar, N. A., & Bhatt, C. (2019). An Adaptive Image Registration Technique to Remove Atmospheric Turbulence. Statistics, Optimization & Information Computing, 7(2), 439-446. https://doi.org/10.19139/soic.v7i2.432
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Vol 7 No 2 (2019)
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Research Articles
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