Deterioration detection for digital film restoration

Olivier Buisson, Bernard Besserer, Samia Boukir, F. Helt

Abstract: This paper presents a robust technique to detect local deteriorations of old cinematographic films. This method relies on spatio-temporal information and combines two different detectors: a morphological detector which uses spatial properties of deteriorations, and a dynamic detector based on motion estimation techniques. Our deterioration detector has been validated on several film sequences and turned out to be a powerful tool for digital film restoration.