Registration and Enhancement of Double-Sided Degraded Manuscripts Acquired in Multispectral Modality

We propose a system to process multispectral scans of double-sided documents. It can co-register any number of recto and verso channel maps, and reduce the bleed-through/show-through distortions by exploiting blind source separation. From RGB scans, it is also able to recover the original colors, thus improving the readability of a document while maintaining its original appearance. The recto and verso patterns obtained can then be further analyzed. Many approaches to this problem are based on single-channel or multichannel recto-verso scans. In any case, getting rid of the unwanted interferences is a challenging problem. All the methods relying on pixel intensities, such as the one presented here, need a very accurate co-registration, and this is difficult for recto-verso pairs since the relevant information is often very sparse.

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