Several methods have been proposed for detection and removal of cracks in digitized paintings. Cracks not only deteriorate the quality of painting but also question its authenticity. In this paper, a morphological methodology (MAO) is proposed which is a variant of recently published morphological methods to identify cracks. After detecting cracks, a modified adaptive median filter (MAMF) is used to fil1 the cracks. The order of the median filter to be applied on crack pixels is computed on the basis of the number of crack pixels in its neighborhood. This methodology of detection and elimination of cracks in digitized paintings is shown to be very effective in preserving the edges also [1-5].

Digital image processing, digitized paintings, crack detection, crack filling, Modified adaptive median filter, virtual restoration of paintings

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