Nonlinear flicker compensation for archived film sequences using motion-compensated graylevel tracing

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 803-816

  Forbin, Guillaume ^a   Vlachos, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exposure inconsistencies; Film restoration; Flicker compensation; Image enhancement; Temporal filtering

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EXPOSURE INCONSISTENCIES; FLICKER COMPENSATION; TEMPORAL FILTERING;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

EID: 44449160373     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.919114     Document Type: Article

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