title: On missing Data Treatment for degraded video and film archives: a survey and a new Bayesian approach.
abstract: Image sequence restoration has been steadily gaining in importance with the increasing prevalence of visual digital media. The demand for content increases the pressure on archives to automate their restoration activities for preservation of the cultural heritage that they hold. There are many defects that affect archived visual material and one central issue is that of Dirt and Sparkle, or "Blotches." Research in archive restoration has been conducted for more than a decade and this paper places that material in context to highlight the advances made during that time. The paper also presents a new and simpler Bayesian framework that achieves joint processing of noise, missing data, and occlusion.
authors.affiliation: Electrical Engineering Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. anil.kokaram@tcd.ie
authors.forename: Anil C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Kokaram
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000379:methods; D001109:Archives; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D010781:Photography / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods*