Design and Implementation of AR Model based Automatic Identification and Restoration Scheme for Line Scratches in Old Films


The KIPS Transactions:PartB , Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 47-54, Feb. 2010
10.3745/KIPSTB.2010.17.1.47,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Old archived film shows two major defects: line scratch and blobs. In this paper, we present a design and implementation of an automatic video restoration system for line scratches observed in archived film.We use autoregressive (AR) image model because we can make stochastic and specifically autoregressive image generation process with our PAST-PRESENT model and Sampling Pattern. We designed locality maximizing scanning pattern, which can generate nearly stationary time-like series of pixels, which is a strong requirement for a stochastic series to be autoregressive. The sampled pixel series undergoes filtering and model fitting using Durbin-Levinson algorithm before interpolation process. We designed three-stage film restoration system, which includes (1) film acquisition from VHS tapes, (2) simple line scratch detection and restoration, and (3) manual blob identification and sophisticated inpainting scheme. We implemented film acquisition and simple inpainting scheme on Texas Instruments DSP board TMS320DM642 EVM, and implemented our AR inpainting scheme on PC for sophisticated restoration. We experimented our scheme with two old Korean films: "Viva Freedom" and "Robot Tae-Kwon-V", and the experimental results show that our scheme improves Bertalmio’s scheme for subjective quality (MOS), objective quality (PSNR), and especially restoration ratio (RR), which reflects how much similar to the manual inpainting results.


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[IEEE Style]
N. S. Han and S. W. Kim, "Design and Implementation of AR Model based Automatic Identification and Restoration Scheme for Line Scratches in Old Films," The KIPS Transactions:PartB , vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 47-54, 2010. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTB.2010.17.1.47.

[ACM Style]
Ngoc Soc Han and Seong Whan Kim. 2010. Design and Implementation of AR Model based Automatic Identification and Restoration Scheme for Line Scratches in Old Films. The KIPS Transactions:PartB , 17, 1, (2010), 47-54. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTB.2010.17.1.47.