Blotch detection for digital archives restoration based on the fusion of spatial and temporal detectors

This paper proposes a method based on the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory for the detection of blotches in digitized archive film sequences. The detection scheme relies on the fusion of two uncorrelated fast, no motion compensated, spatio-temporal blotch detectors. The imprecision and uncertainty of botch detectors are modeled using Dempster-Shafer evidence theory, which improves the decision, by taking into acoount the …