Films, REstauration Et DOnnées Manquantes – FREEDOM

Our project deals with the restoration and the enhancement of moving pictures. More precisely, it aims at the suppression of occluding defects, the restoration of radiometric impairments and the development of super-resolution techniques. Objectives: Develop fast and automatic algorithms yielding visually satisfying results, in particular when coping with high definition sequences. Originality: Our team has a background both in image processing and applied mathematics. We believe that recent mathematical tools (variational methods, a contrario methods, topographic map, transportation theory, geometry-texture decomposition) will allow significant progresses toward our goals. Expected results: Flicker correction Reliable motion estimation, even with complex motions Automatic detection of instantaneous defects (blotches) and persistent defects (scratches) Variational restoration of fine artefacts Inpainting techniques adapted to high resolution and complex motions Super-resolution for moving pictures We plan to implement algorithms developed by our team as plug-ins for classical and/or specialised softwares.