When a laser carrying image information is transmitted in seawater, the presence of
ocean turbulence leads to significant degradation of the received
information due to the effect of interference. To address this issue,
we propose a deep-learning-based method to retrieve the original
information from a degraded pattern. To simulate the propagation of
laser beams in ocean turbulence, a model of an ocean turbulence phase
screen based on the power spectrum inversion method is used. The
degraded images with different turbulence conditions are produced
based on the model. A Pix2Pix network architecture is built to acquire
the original image information. The results indicate that the network
can realize high-fidelity image recovery under various turbulence
conditions based on the degraded patterns. However, as turbulence
strength and transmission distance increase, the reconstruction
accuracy of the Pix2Pix network decreases. To further improve the
image reconstruction ability of neural network architectures, we
established three networks (U-Net, Pix2Pix, and Deep-Pix2Pix) and
compared their performance in retrieving the degraded patterns.
Overall, the Pix2Pix network showed the best performance for image
reconstruction.