Obtaining High Quality Photographs of Paintings by Image Fusion

You walk through a museum taking photographs of some paintings with your commodity camera. You load all these images into the computer. The computer builds a high-quality image of each one of the paintings. This article describes what the computer does. More precisely, we explain a method to produce a single, high-resolution, clean and well-lit image, out of many low-resolution noisy images taken in bad lighting conditions. Source Code The source code (ANSI C), its documentation, and the online demo are accessible at the IPOL web page of this article1.