DIAMANT: A Digital Film Restoration Environment

DIAMANT is a user-centric environment for restoring degraded film using a suite of compute- and data-intensive digital video processing techniques. To provide the necessary computing power, data storage and visualisation bandwidth, DIAMANT uses a Grid resourcing model to locate the necessary resources on a Linux Beowulf cluster.

The main features of DIAMANT are:

• performance modelling to predict and ensure appropriate selection of resources;
• feedback to the user on expected run-times, allowing the user to plan batch and interactive use of systems; and
• transparent presentation to the user in familiar film processing terms.

DIAMANT is a typical sector-specific problem-solving environment, enabled by a Grid resourcing approach, and providing a user-friendly interface to the Grid.

See the DIAMANT project website for more details.

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DIAMANT received research funding from the EC’s IST Programme.