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Restoration of Archival Videos for Preserving Digital Heritage of India

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Ever since the invention of motion pictures at the end of the nineteenth century, movies have played an important role in the cultural evolution of human society. Indian society is no exception. The large archives of monochrome as well as color movies, that are authentic evidences of many social, economic, and cultural changes that India has gone through, rightfully claim a place in our national heritage. Unfortunately, because of various factors namely, aging, improper preservation, inadequate imaging technology, many among these movies are severely degraded and show different visual artifacts. Each of the sources of degradation has a unique characteristic. Hence, it is not possible for a single method to restore all the artifacts faithfully. The degraded movies can be restored manually, but it is time consuming and expensive. we propose a unified approach to detect some of the most commonly appearing artifacts in heritage movies and restore them to achieve a superior visual quality.

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Abbreviations

ADM:

Alternating direction method

DCT:

Discrete cosine transform

LRSD:

Low rank-sparse decomposition technique

MM:

Majorization-minimization

PCA:

Partial color artifact

ROD:

Rank-order difference

SAD:

Sum of absolute distance

SALSA:

Split-augmented Lagrangian shrinkage algorithm

TVD:

Total variation-based decomposition

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    Saumik Bhattacharya, K. S. Venkatesh & Sumana Gupta

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Bhattacharya, S., Venkatesh, K.S., Gupta, S. (2018). Restoration of Archival Videos for Preserving Digital Heritage of India. In: Chanda, B., Chaudhuri, S., Chaudhury, S. (eds) Heritage Preservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7221-5_10

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