Restoration of blue scratches in digital image sequences

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1314-1326

  Maddalena, Lucia ^a   Petrosino, Alfredo ^b  

^a ICAR CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blue scratch; Colour digital film restoration; Scratch detection; Scratch removal

Indexed keywords

BLUE SCRATCH; COLOUR DIGITAL FILM RESTORATION; DETECTION METHODS; DIGITAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REAL IMAGES; REMOVAL METHOD; SCRATCH DETECTION; SCRATCH REMOVAL;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 49349103729     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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