Due to the underdeveloped scanning technology, some old movie films are scanned in digital format with lower resolution, which does not meet the viewing needs of contemporary viewers. Therefore, it is necessary to superresolution processing them to improve the image quality. However, some old movies will appear blurred after scanning. In this case, the existing algorithm super-resolution reconstruction results are often not ideal. This paper adds image deblurring pre-processing before the super-resolution processing. First, the old movie is deblurred according to the deblurring generation training model against the network, and then the image is super-resolution processed by the sub-pixel convolution network. The method aims to improve the problem that the repair effect caused by the image blur caused by the old film in the super-resolution reconstruction is not ideal.
In old movies, the common jitter is caused by translation, rotation and zooming. Aiming at the common phenomenon of video jitter, this paper proposes a method of combining Lucas-Kanade sparse optical flow with feature point matching to estimate the global motion parameters. Then, it is applied to the restoration of old film, so as to realize the motion compensation from the jitter frame to the reference frame, so as to achieve the image stabilization effect of the continuous sequence frame of the old movie. Experiment’s results show that this algorithm has a good real-time performance, and it can solve the problem of smooth transition between frame and frame effectively.
In the long history of human civilization, archived film is an indispensable part of it, and using digital method to repair damaged film is also a mainstream trend nowadays. In this paper, we propose a sparse color correspondences based technique to remove fading flicker for old films. Our model, combined with multi frame images to establish a simple correction model, includes three key steps. Firstly, we recover sparse color correspondences in the input frames to build a matrix with many missing entries. Secondly, we present a low-rank matrix factorization approach to estimate the unknown parameters of this model. Finally, we adopt a two-step strategy that divide the estimated parameters into reference frame parameters for color recovery correction and other frame parameters for color consistency correction to remove flicker. Our method combined multi-frames takes continuity of the input sequence into account, and the experimental results show the method can remove fading flicker efficiently.
Due to improper preservation, traditional films will appear frame loss after digital. To deal with this problem, this paper presents a new adaptive patch-based method of frame interpolation via the guidance of motion paths. Our method is divided into three steps. Firstly, we compute motion paths between two reference frames using optical flow estimation. Then, the adaptive bidirectional interpolation with holes filled is applied to generate pre-intermediate frames. Finally, using patch match to interpolate intermediate frames with the most similar patches. Since the patch match is based on the pre-intermediate frames that contain the motion paths constraint, we show a natural and inartificial frame interpolation. We test different types of old film sequences and compare with other methods, the results prove that our method has a desired performance without hole or ghost effects.
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