Removal of Color Scratches from Old Motion Picture Films Exploiting Human Perception

In this paper a unified model for both detection and restoration of line scratches on color movies is presented. It exploits a generalization of the light diffraction effect for modeling the shape of scratches, while perception laws are used for their automatic detection and removal. The detection a...

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Main Authors: Domenico Vitulano, Paola Ferrara, Vittoria Bruni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2008-09-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/352986