Need recommendation for image-repair software.

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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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marcrosse@hotmail.com wrote in news:1102385199.228524.83150
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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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<marcrosse@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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 wrote:

> http://www-mount.ee.umn.edu/~guille/inpainting.htm
>
http://www.research.microsoft.com/ [...] pr2003.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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"Mickey Dunston" <md588@wilberforce.grn> wrote in message
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> marcrosse@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> Any recommendations for downloadable
>> software that automatically repairs scratches
>> in images; by applying (AI) artifical-intelligence
>> e.g., neural-networks in reconstructing missing
>> pixels?
>
> I'm not sure if it's sold as a download, but I've
> used PSP, PS and PSE, but by far the best
> digital scratch remover I've seen is the process
> used by the Nikon scanning software -- is it
> digital ICE? The results are spectacular. I've had
> very old negs with serious scratches and even
> crazing come out pristine.

That is because Digital ICE uses an infrared sensor to actually locate the
dust and scratches, which (in infrared) look very different from anything
that could actually be part of the image.

I hate to disillusion people, but even artificial intelligence doesn't know
what you intended your picture to look like. There are some pretty good
filters in Photoshop, though.


Michael Covington
Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center
The University of Georgia - www.ai.uga.edu/mc