arXiv · 2107.11627
Accelerating Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation via Learned Phase-to-Space Transform
Abstract
Fast and accurate simulation of imaging through atmospheric turbulence is essential for developing turbulence mitigation algorithms. Recognizing the limitations of previous approaches, we introduce a new concept known as the phase-to-space (P2S) transform to significantly speed up the simulation. P2S is build upon three ideas: (1) reformulating the spatially varying convolution as a set of invariant convolutions with basis functions, (2) learning the basis function via the known turbulence statistics models, (3) implementing the P2S transform via a light-weight network that directly convert the phase representation to spatial representation. The new simulator offers 300x -- 1000x speed up compared to the mainstream split-step simulators while preserving the essential turbulence statistics.
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Zhiyuan Mao, Nicholas Chimitt, Stanley H. Chan. 2021-07-24. Accelerating Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation via Learned Phase-to-Space Transform. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11627
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