An Improved Landweber Method for Restoration of Aero-Optically Degraded Images

Aero-optic effects cause distortions, including blurring, vibration, deformation and spatial shifting, of the objects in the image obtained by the infra-red sensor. Contributions of this paper are in the following two aspects. First, the correctness of the theoretical point spread function (PSF) representing the aero-optic effects, which had been derived in our previous research, is validated experimentally. Second, in order to restore the aero-optically degraded images, an improved Landweber iteration method is proposed, where, instead of being fixed, the relaxation factor is updated adaptively at each iteration. Experiments have been carried out and results demonstrate that the proposed method introduces improved restoration results with better convergence.