
Real-Time Video Stabilization and Motion Deblurring for Flapping-Wing Robots
Master's ThesisJacob Krucinski
Northeastern University — Master's Thesis (Advisors: Alireza Ramezani, Rajagopal Venkatesaramani) · 2026
A real-time image preprocessing framework for visual odometry on the Aerobat flapping-wing MAV consisting of two modular ROS 1 components: a RobustL1-based electronic image stabilizer and an IMU/CNN-guided non-uniform Wiener deblurring pipeline. They both address camera jitter and motion blur from wing-stroke dynamics. The stabilizer runs at 100+ FPS and the deblurring pipeline at 21.4 FPS end-to-end at 480p, with a +1.02 dB PSNR improvement on Aerobat sequences and a 72.8% RMSE reduction in ORB-SLAM3 localization error on the V2_03_difficult EuRoC sequence.













