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Exhibit Hall Open

Grand Ballroom Salons 3-6

Tuesday 1:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am- 2:00 pm

Restoration of Damaged Korean Films by Using Various Image Processing Techniques.

Chulhyun Kim (Image Processing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Chung-Ang University., Korea); Vivek Mike (Image Processing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Chung-Ang University., Korea); Sangjin Kim (Image Processing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Chung-Ang University., Korea); Joonki Paik (Image Processing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Chung-Ang University., Korea)

Topic : Advancements in film technologies: film stocks, restoration techniques Abstract : Recently, the digital cinema distribution chain takes additional path for old, damaged movies with proper restoration. Old movies acquired by a low-quality camera and stored in harsh condition tend to have lot of defects compared with modern digital movies. This paper presents a set of image processing algorithms for enhancing and restoring the old movies severely degraded by camera jitters, film scratches, grain, noise and poor contrast, to name a few. In 2005, film association in South Korea re-run animated movies that were 30 years old supported by high standard digital quality. In this work we briefly introduce the restoration of 30 years old animation film by Korea Film Council and then explain the ongoing restoration work for old Korean cinema with consideration of the bottleneck between the main workflow and the intermediate equipment computability. Experimental results will be presented for restored samples of old movies and animations followed by the workflow pipeline of the proposed restoration module.

Thursday, Oct 29
8:30 AM - 11:00 AM

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