Image Sequence Restoration: A Review

Abstract

Two dimensional image restoration has been an active research topic since the 1960’s. Algorithms have been developed to remove blur, noise and impulsive distortion from single images [107, 153, 71]. In contrast, research concerned with image sequence restoration can be traced back only to about the late 1970’s [31] when it was mainly associated with image coding. The subject has only become prominent within the last decade [36, 115, 117, 77, 137, 42]. It is during these years that the increasing speed of microprocessors has made the heavy computation practical. That, coupled with the rising importance of video both for communications and entertainment has made the subject grow in importance.