Deep learning approach for artefacts correction on photographic films

Abstract : The use of photographic films is not totally obsolete, photographers continue to use this technology for quality in terms of aesthetic rendering. A crucial step with films is the digitization step. During the scanning process, dust, scratch and hair (artefacts) are a real problem and greatly affect the quality of final images. The artefacts correction has become a challenge in order to preserve the quality of these photos. In this article, we present a new method based on deep learning with an encoder-decoder architecture to detect and eliminate artefacts. In addition, a dataset has been created to carry out the experiments.