Extract similarities between bunch of image to remove stains on gimp or imagemagick

Question

I didn't find clear answer on that: I have some dots and stains on my lens. It's not so visible on some pictures but when I take shot at sky or something bright, the image is spoiled by stain and spots. So the question "Extract similarities between bunch of image to remove stains on gimp or imagemagick" You see, I want to extract similarities ie : the dots and stain from differents images.

After that when I get my image with only the dots and stains, I can make a substraction on the spoiled images

Thanks for help and advices

edit: I maybe need to reformulate a bit. All my pictures are spoiled with smudges. My Idea was actually to takes (or a bunch of) all these picture to detect what it remains the same and create a picture of that.

This extracted picture will be the smudges only.

Then I can substract it from the spoiled image. Spot the Idea?

It's like background substraction on video. Imagine a car park. We want only the the background (said, the landmarks). We take many pictures with some car at random places. And I beleive there is an algorithm that can extact only the background by creating and image of what remain the same (the soil of the car park)

Imagemagick can do something like that ? Or another app ?

Answer 1

To always remove stains or dust from the exact same areas of several images the following workflow using Gimp may lead to satisfactory (but not perfect) results.

Obtain despeckle mask

1. Take an image from an even grey background to reveal artifacts

   ^{Source: Wikimedia}

2. Select artifacts (using Select by Color-tool or manually)

   
   The more you select here the more is going to be repaired later.

3. Convert selection to a path

4. Save this path as .SVG

Despeckle from mask

1. Load image to enhance

   

2. Load path from above

3. Convert path to selection

   

4. Apply Heal Selection tool

   
   _{Heal Selection: 10 px | All around | Random
   To avoid artifacts from healing (see bottom right) deselect areas from step 3.}