Unsupervised digital movie restoration with spatial models of color

• Published in: Multimedia tools and applications Vol. 75; no. 7; pp. 3747 - 3765
• Main Authors: Rizzi, Alessandro, Berolo, Anna Jerry, Bonanomi, Cristian, Gadia, Davide
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Color; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science; Cultural heritage; Data Structures and Information Theory; Digital; Digitization; Editorials; Eyes & eyesight; Film preservation; Human; Motion picture directors & producers; Motion picture production; Motion pictures; Multimedia; Multimedia computer applications; Multimedia Information Systems; Renovation & restoration; Restoration; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Studies; Transformations; Vision systems; Unsupervised restoration; Color appearance; Restoration kickoff; Color restoration; Spatial color algorithms; Digital movie restoration

In this paper, we present an efficient approach to digital color restoration, based on the idea of recovering the appearance of color rather than the original color signal, since, in most of the cases, for old films the original reference is missing, and new films or digital coding can be subject to...