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Many historical books contain a form of deterioration known as foxing, a brownish stain which has the effect of altering aesthetic and visual appeal. In this paper we explore a novel technique for suppressing foxing in historical manuscripts using an image processing technique known as inpainting.
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Zaremba, R., Wirth, M. (2009). Suppression of Foxing in Historical Books Using Inpainting. In: Kamel, M., Campilho, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02611-9_84
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