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In this paper, we propose a new method to automatically remove intensity flicker in digitized old films. We assume that intensity of two consecutive frames should not change too much, and thus the histograms of the two frames are similar. Under these circumstances, we can fix a corrupted frame by substituting its content by the content of its neighboring frame. The major contribution of this work is that we simultaneously apply global histogram transform as well as local histogram transform to preserve the quality of frame intensity across consecutive frames. The function of local histogram transform is to remove local intensity flicker. Performance of the proposed method is evaluated by both local and global measurements. In the global measurement, the mean and the standard deviation of frame intensity are used. In the local measurement, the average of absolute intensity difference between blocks is adopted. Experiment results show that the proposed method can remove intensity flickers in a digitized old film effectively.
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Zeng, YC., Lin, SY., Shih, YP., Liao, HY.M. (2009). Intensity Flicker Removal in Digitized Old Films Using Global-Local Histogram Transform. In: Muneesawang, P., Wu, F., Kumazawa, I., Roeksabutr, A., Liao, M., Tang, X. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2009. PCM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10467-1_3
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