The Essential Guide to Video Processing

CHAPTER 4 Video Enhancement and Restoration

Reginald L. Lagendijk¹, Jan Biemond¹, Andrei Rareş², Marcel J.T. Reinders¹,

¹ Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Mediamatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

² Division of Image Processing (LKEB), Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

4.1 INTRODUCTION

Even with the advancing camera and digital recording technology, there are many situations in which recorded image sequences—or video for short—may suffer from severe degradations. The poor quality of recorded image sequences may be due to, for instance, the imperfect or uncontrollable recording conditions, ...