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OldVSR: A model for the video super-resolution and restoration of old real-world TV series
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2022.34.14.COIMG-247  Published OnlineJanuary 2022
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With the recent advance in video super-resolution (VSR) techniques, there have been many requests for super-resolve real-world old analog TV series into high-definition digital content. As excellent classical TV series may receive little to no attention due to their poor video quality, restoring them would open new business opportunities for reusing old TV contents. A problem with restoring real-world old TV series is in the complex artifacts introduced by the old interlaced scanning and compression artifacts during the digitization of old analog videos. Though recent DNN-based VSR models perform nicely on clean videos, due to the artificial nature of interlacing and compression artifacts, they fail to restore old videos into a high-definition counterpart free from noticeable artifacts. In this work, we propose OldVSR for restoring old real-world TV series with artifacts of artificial nature. The proposed model implements a bidirectional recurrent structure with first and second-order propagation where each recurrent layer implements two main functions, i.e., Feature alignment (FA) and Pyramid feature aggregation (PFA). The outputs of the forward and backward layers are merged and upsampled to produce a High-Definition (HD) frame of the input standard-definition (SD) frame. We demonstrate through experiments that our proposed OldVSR can effectively remove artifacts of artificial nature from old videos and successfully restores old TV series.

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Tony Nokap Park, Tayoung Na, "OldVSR: A model for the video super-resolution and restoration of old real-world TV seriesin Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Computational Imaging,  2022,  pp 247-1 - 247-6,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2022.34.14.COIMG-247

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