Printed photographs can be easily warped, wrinkled, and even deteriorated over time.
Existing methods treat the restoration of scratches as a pure inpainting problem that neglects …

Counterfeiting is an increasing concern for businesses and governments as greater
numbers of counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) infiltrate the global market. There is an …

Counterfeiting is an increasing concern for businesses and governments as greater
numbers of counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) infiltrate the global market. There is an …

Curling disease in long historical photos significantly affects the presentation of cultural
heritage information. However, people lack attention to the formation process and …

Historical images are essential documents of the recent past. Nevertheless, time and bad
preservation corrupt their physical supports. Digitization can be the solution to extend their …

Although the current deep learning-based old photos restoration work can repair scratches
and structural defects, the results often have the problems of incomplete scratch detection …

Quality control is an important part of any production line. It can be done manually but is
most efficient if automated. Inspecting quality can include many different processes but this …

This paper proposes a system for scratch detection using bilateral filter combined with Haar
Wavelet Transform. In this system the image is first gray scaled and then bilateral filter is …

In this paper a detection/restoration method to detect and remove line scratches in still
images, regardless of their orientation, colour, and shape is presented. In this work the two …

Over time, old films and pictures are eroded and often get corrupted with physical scratches.
Digitization of these physically corrupted films lead to the presence of various scratch marks …