Restoration of Damaged Korean Films by Using Various Image-Processing Techniques

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 120, No. 1, pp. 45–49
Abstract: Recently, the digital cinema distribution chain has added an additional path for showing old, damaged films using proper restoration. Old films, which were acquired by low-quality cameras and stored in poor conditions, tend to have many defects compared with movies made with modern digital works. This paper presents a set of image-processing algorithms for enhancing and restoring old films severely degraded by camera jitter, film scratches, grain noise, and poor contrast. In 2005, the Korean Film Council reran 30-year-old animated films in high-quality digital standard. In this work we briefly introduce the restoration of these animated films and provide details of the additional ongoing restoration work on old Korean films with a consideration of the bottleneck between the main workflow and compatibility of intermediate equipment. Experimental results are presented for restored samples of old movies and animations followed by the workflow pipeline of the proposed restoration process.
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18007XY
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18007XY
Author(s): Chulhyun Kim
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Chulhyun Kim received an M.Div. degree from the Korea Baptist Theological Seminary in 1998, and an M.A. degree in digital cinema from Chung-Ang University, Korea, in 2007. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Chung-Ang University and he is a member of Image Processing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. His work interests include old lm restoration, stereoscopic post-production, and video editing using metadata.
Vivek Maik
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Vivek Maik received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in digital imaging science from Chung-Ang University in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is currently working as a post Doctoral Fellow at the Image Processing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. His research interests include image enhancement and restoration for display processing, computational methods for digital cameras, color correction methods, and optical imaging techniques.
Sangjin Kim
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Sangjin Kim received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Kangnam University, Korea, in 2003 and an M.S degree in image processing from Chung-Ang University, Korea, in 2005. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in image processing at Chung-Ang University. His research interests include image restoration, computational camera, image and video processing, realtime object tracking.
Jaehwan Jeon
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Jaehwan Jeon received a B.S. degree in information and telecommunications engineering from Suwon University in 2009. Currently, he is pursuing an M.S. degree in image processing at Chung-Ang University. His research interests include image enhancement, digital auto-focusing, and digital image stabilization.
Joonki Paik
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Joonki Paik received a B.S. degree in control and instrumentation engineering from Seoul National University in 1984. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1987 and 1990, respectively. — After receiving a Ph.D. degree, he joined Samsung Electronics, where he designed the image stabilization chip sets for consumer camcorders. Since 1993, he has worked at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Advanced Imaging Science. From 1999 to 2002, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. From 2005 to 2007, he served as Dean of the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia, and Film. — Paik is currently the head of the Image Processing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, which is supported by the Brain Korea 21 Project, by the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication under ITRC-HNRC, and by Seoul Future Contents Convergence Cluster, established by the Seoul Research and Business Development (R&BD) Program.
Copyright: © 2011 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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