The restoration of degraded old motion pictures

Author

Hadhoud, M.M. ; Dessouky, M.I.M. ; Abbas, A.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Menofia Univ., Menof, Egypt

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

300

Abstract

Due to bad storage and repeated projection, movies suffer from many degradations, such as blotches, sparkle, noise or missing data in different parts. This paper examines these problems and the use of some image restoration techniques, in conjunction with motion estimation techniques widely used in video coding, to restore these pictures. The three-step method of block matching is used for motion estimation. An algorithm based on motion estimation and applying the concepts of the temporal 3D median filter is used for restoration. The results of this method show visual improvement and high reduction of the blotches, sparkles and missing data. Using other image enhancement techniques, further improvement can be obtained.

Keywords

image enhancement; image matching; image restoration; image sequences; median filters; motion estimation; video signal processing; 3D median filter; block matching; degraded motion pictures; digital video; image enhancement; image restoration; image sequence; motion estimation; motion picture restoration; temporal filter; video coding; Degradation; Filters; Image enhancement; Image processing; Image restoration; Image sequences; Image storage; Material storage; Motion estimation; Motion pictures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Conference, 2002. (NRSC 2002). Proceedings of the Nineteenth National

Print_ISBN

977-5031-72-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRSC.2002.1022635

Filename

1022635