Journal of Shanghai University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2017, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (3): 315-323.doi: 10.12066/j.issn.1007-2861.1923

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Group-based vintage film inpainting using robust principal component analysis

YU Bing1,2, DING Youdong1,2, DONG Sun1,2, HUANG Xi1,2   

  1. 1. Shanghai Film Academy, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China;
    2. Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Motion Picture Special Effects, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
  • Received:2017-03-17 Online:2017-06-30 Published:2017-06-30

Abstract:

In this paper, a new group-based method using robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is proposed to deal with multiple categories of damage in vintage film sequences. Pre-processing of the video sequence is achieved by shot segmentation and flicker elimination. In a framework of multi-resolution pyramid, an observation matrix is constructed on the coarsest level by space-time domain grouping. After performing RPCA transform based on the alternating linear method in sequence, locations of large area damage are obtained based on inter-frame error information. An initial inpainting result sequence, a break mask sequence, and a nearest neighbor offset matrix set using an upsampling method are constructed. The original sequence is then modified. By repeating the space-time grouping RPCA transform, inpainting of the vintage film sequence is realized. Experimental results show that the method can simultaneously repair different damages in the screen with good performance.

Key words: robust principal component analysis (RPCA), video inpainting, vintage film