A Novel Speckle Noise Reduction Algorithm for Old Movies Recovery

Abstract

In the preservation of old movies, there will be various degradations, such as scratches and dust. Although there have been many studies on denoising, those methods have not been effective in the restoration of old movies. In this paper, we propose a novel old film speckle noise removal method, which includes speckle noise detection and an inpainting based speckle noise reduction procedures. The spatiotemporal information is employed in speckle noise detection. Meanwhile, a deep image prior based deep auto-encoder-decoder network is designed to remove the speckle noise. Experiment results show that the proposed method can achieve better results compared with other methods.