A hardcopy backup and reconstruction system for digital images

Large amounts of images are captured every day and digital storage solutions are the most prevalent approach to preserve them. This paper proposes to augment the existing solutions with a modernized hardcopy backup, which can serve as a fall-back solution if everything else fails and can be enjoyed...

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Published in2009 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) pp. 3917 - 3920
Main Authors Hoarau, Eric, Tastl, Ingeborg, Moroney, Nathan
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2009
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Color
color correction
color transformation
Digital images
Fading
Humans
Image reconstruction
Image restoration
Image storage
Printing
Reconstruction algorithms
Robustness
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Summary:Large amounts of images are captured every day and digital storage solutions are the most prevalent approach to preserve them. This paper proposes to augment the existing solutions with a modernized hardcopy backup, which can serve as a fall-back solution if everything else fails and can be enjoyed at the same time. In particular, the collection of images is printed in form of an inexpensive photo-album, which is augmented with printed human readable meta-information designed to enable an easy reconstruction of the the digital version of the original images. The methodology is illustrated using a set of digital sRGB images and printed simulations of faded versions of those images, which are scanned and reconstructed in an automatic and manual way and are compared to the results of a scanner reconstruction software and to the original images.
ISBN:9781424456536
1424456533
ISSN:1522-4880
2381-8549
DOI:10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414020