Trainable post-processing method to reduce false alarms in the detection of small blotches of archive films

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 562-565

  Licsár, Attila ^a   Czúni, László ^a   Szirányi, Tamás ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Blotch detection; Digital film restoration; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

BLOTCH DETECTION; DIGITAL FILM RESTORATION; IMAGE FEATURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33749623892     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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