Project 1 - Images of the Russian Empire
Sonja Duric
Algorithm and Comments
My algorithm for colorizing the Prokudin-Gorskii collection of
three-channel images first crops the unnecessary white borders found
in some images as well as the damaged edges of the glass plates
before using Normalized Cross-Correlation to find the alignment
vectors. This implementation of NCC uses a pyramid scheme to handle high
resolution images. Once the alignment vectors are found, the three
channels are put together to create color images, as seen below.
I found that the damaged edges created issues for the NCC algorithm
and were unsightly in the finished product, so cropping before
alignment solved both of these issues.
TIFF Images
Given Examples
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00911u.tif
01043u.tif
01047u.tif
01657u.tif
01194u.tif
01861a.tif
Personal Choices
Flowers - 00946u.tif
Sailors - 00955u.tif
- There is one sailor in this image who appeared blurry in the
red-channel image. I believe this is why he is un-aligned while his
compatriots all appear life-like.
Church doors - 01033u.tif
JPEG Images
Given Examples
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