Long-distance imaging in time-varying scattering media, such as atmosphere, is a significant challenge. Light is often heavily diffused while propagating through scattering media, because of which the clear imaging of objects concealed by media becomes difficult. In this study, instead of suppressing diffusion by multiple scattering, we used natural randomness of wave propagation through atmospheric scattering media as an optimal and instantaneous compressive imaging mechanism. A mathematical model of compressive imaging based on the modulation of atmospheric scattering media was established. By using the Monte Carlo method, the atmospheric modulation matrix was obtained, and the numerical simulation of modulation imaging of atmospheric scattering media was performed. Comparative experiments show that the atmospheric matrix can achieve the same modulation effect as the Hadamard and Gaussian random matrices. The effectiveness of the proposed optical imaging approach was demonstrated experimentally by loading the atmospheric measurement matrix onto a digital micromirror device to perform single pixel compressive sensing measurements. Our work provides a new direction to ongoing research in the field of imaging through scattering media.
Compressive Sensing Imaging Based on Modulation of Atmospheric Scattering Medium