Need recommendation for image-repair software.

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Dec 7, 2004
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Hello,

Any recommendations for downloadable software that automatically repairs scratches in images; by applying (AI) artifical-intelligence
e.g., neural-networks in reconstructing missing pixels?

Thank-you
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Kingdom
Dec 7, 2004
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Hello,

Any recommendations for downloadable software that automatically repairs scratches in images; by applying (AI) artifical-intelligence
e.g., neural-networks in reconstructing missing pixels?

Thank-you

Way to futuristic!

This needs a human eye and some skill with an image package

—
Youth is wasted on the young!
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Greg
Dec 7, 2004
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Hello,

Any recommendations for downloadable software that automatically repairs scratches in images; by applying (AI) artifical-intelligence
e.g., neural-networks in reconstructing missing pixels?

What about simple smoothing filters? After all, a scratch is just a thin continuum of extreme values that can be
replaced by interpolation.

A decision tree approach might work.
No experience, just a few thoughts.

Hope this helps.

Greg
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Marvin Margoshes
Dec 7, 2004
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Hello,

Any recommendations for downloadable software that automatically repairs scratches in images; by applying (AI) artifical-intelligence
e.g., neural-networks in reconstructing missing pixels?

Thank-you

The folks that write the software are rather secretive about their algorithms. You have to go by the qualty of the results.

Paint Shop Pro works well for me, though there is a learning curve to get the best results. It is free for a trial period, so you don’t buy unless you like. Get it a www.jasc.com.
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Andrew Guillory
Dec 7, 2004
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Any recommendations for downloadable software that automatically repairs scratches in images; by applying (AI) artifical-intelligence
e.g., neural-networks in reconstructing missing pixels?

This is not a software recommendation, but I believe what you are describing is what is called "inpainting" in computer vision research. There have actually been some very nice results:

http://www-mount.ee.umn.edu/~guille/inpainting.htm

With these techniques you specify where the scratch is in the image and it fills in that area with information from the surrounding pixels. I’m not sure about implementations of these algorithms.

Some more impressive results removing large objects from pictures: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~antcrim/papers/Criminisi_ cvpr2003.pdf

Andrew Guillory
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eawckyegcy
Dec 7, 2004
Andrew Guillory wrote:

http://www-mount.ee.umn.edu/~guille/inpainting.htm
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~antcrim/papers/Criminisi_ cvpr2003.pdf

Erosion on steroids!

Looks like the latter can do the former, but do it better by the looks of it.

Fantastic references, and the algorithms don’t look too difficult to implement.
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eawckyegcy
Dec 7, 2004
Andrew Guillory wrote:

http://www-mount.ee.umn.edu/~guille/inpainting.htm
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~antcrim/papers/Criminisi_ cvpr2003.pdf

Erosion on steroids!

Looks like the latter can do the former, but do it better by the looks of it.

Fantastic references, and the algorithms don’t look too difficult to implement.

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