Image Processing Reference
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Table 4-4 RACINE-S Project Participants
Company
Expertise
Arri
Developing a portable scanner for all available formats.
Pandora
Developing the processing hardware required to run the restoration
International
processes.
FSSG
Software to regenerate speech. They call this virtual dubbing. They
are also looking at the acoustical enhancement of audio recording
and reproduction systems.
Cineca
User interface being developed using VR techniques.
University of
Interpolation software to replace or repair damaged and missing
Glasgow
imagery.
Androme
Collaborating with the University of Glasgow on joint research
projects to develop multimedia software and restoration techniques.
Limberg
Collaborating with the University of Glasgow on joint software tool
Univeritair
development projects.
Centrum (LUC)
Cinecitta
Integration and bench testing to establish whether the restoration
algorithms work satisfactorily, and feeding back to the researchers.
If the film is digitized and the color correction is done digitally, it can then be printed
back onto film for distribution. This digital intermediate (DI) introduces an opportunity to
improve the workflow and provide additional tools to the filmmaker.
Scanning the film in at the earliest possible point enables the editing to be done elec-
tronically. This is very beneficial. The integration of special effects or corrective “surgery”
other than just grading the film can then be used to easily add or remove elements, or
perform sky replacement or compositional adjustment to frame the content more attrac-
tively.
Shooting on HDCAM equipment eliminates the scanning process altogether at the
expense of losing the organic quality of film grain. That quality can be reintroduced
during the finishing phase. The process of shooting and editing a movie is shown in
Figure 4-28. The top row of boxes is the traditional mechanical process and the bottom is
RACINE-S: http://www.racine.eu.com/Arri: http://www.arri.com/
Pandora International: http://pogle.pandora-int.com/
FSSG: http://www.cini.ve.cnr.it/
Cineca: http://www.cineca.it/
University of Glasgow: http://www.gla.ac.uk/
Androme: http://www.androme.be/
LUC: http://www.luc.ac.be/
Cinecitta: http://wwwcinecittastudios.it/
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