Cinema is often considered as the eleventh art. Since the invention of "Lumière Cinematograph" in 1895 by Lumière brothers, many motion pictures have been made. A lot was destroyed, others very damaged due to the short life span of films used and their conditions continues to deteriorate. Thus it is urgent to restore and preserve this cultural inheritance. The main drawback of the classical approach is they are time-consuming and money-consuming: each picture has to be restored separatly and in a manual manner. With the growing of computer power and image processing, computers are more and more used in motion pictures restoration.

In this paper we present some methods to detect and restorate artifacts using morphological mathematics. The language used for the implemention will be C++, morphological mathematics and image manipulation will be provide by Olena, an generic image processing C++ library from EPITA Research & Development Laboraty (LRDE).

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