Introduces the first system capable of imaging high-speed, non-rigid objects through strong atmospheric turbulence at 16,000 pixels per second.
arXiv · March 17, 2026 · 2603.14023
The Takeaway
Atmospheric turbulence normally limits imaging quality in long-range or high-speed scenarios; by using event-based light field cameras, this paper demonstrates a way to disambiguate motion from turbulence. This provides a hardware-software breakthrough for defense, aerospace, and remote sensing where traditional cameras fail.
From the abstract
This work introduces and demonstrates the first system capable of imaging fast-moving extended non-rigid objects through strong atmospheric turbulence at high frame rate. Event cameras are a novel sensing architecture capable of estimating high-speed imagery at thousands of frames per second. However, on their own event cameras are unable to disambiguate scene motion from turbulence. In this work, we overcome this limitation using event-based light field cameras: By simultaneously capturing mult