Suppression of Foxing in Historical Books Using Inpainting

  • Authors:

  • Ryan Zaremba;Michael Wirth

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada;Dept. Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Many historical books contain a form of deterioration known as foxing, a brownish stain which has the effect of altering aesthetic and visual appeal. In this paper we explore a novel technique for suppressing foxing in historical manuscripts using an image processing technique known as inpainting.