The Use of Stereoscopic Imaging Techniques to Reduce Apparent Loss of Information Caused by Image Damage

Stereoscopic viewing techniques may often be used to reclaim data which has apparently become lost through physical or chemical degradation of images. The original to be preserved may not necessarily itself be stereoscopic but merely an identical copy.

The technique assumes that degradation of any two images is unlikely to be identical on a site for site basis and that stereoscopic viewing will always reject the lesser quality site in preference for the more perfect site in recomposing the original image.