A method of automatically correcting dust artifact regions within images acquired by a system including a digital camera includes digitally-acquiring one or more original images with the digital camera. Probabilities that certain pixels correspond to dust artifact regions within the one or more digitally-acquired...http://www.google.de/patents/US20050068449?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20050068449 - Automated statistical self-calibrating detection and removal of blemishes in digital images based on a dust map developed from actual image data