Interactive Image Inpainting of Large-Scale Missing Region

Image inpainting is a challenging reconstruction of the damaged image in photography, especially for more valued artwork than before. The damages are mostly caused by scratches and worn out, so they cannot be easily fixed physically. Thus, many scientists proposed sophisticated methods for restoring...

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Published in:IEEE access 2021, Vol.9, p.56430-56442
Main Authors: Sari, Irawati Nurmala, Horikawa, Emiko, Du, Weiwei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Color
color propagation
fast marching method (FMM)
Flowcharts
Image color analysis
Image edge detection
Image inpainting
Image reconstruction
Image restoration
Image segmentation
Propagation
structure propagation
user interaction
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Summary:Image inpainting is a challenging reconstruction of the damaged image in photography, especially for more valued artwork than before. The damages are mostly caused by scratches and worn out, so they cannot be easily fixed physically. Thus, many scientists proposed sophisticated methods for restoring the damaged image into a new one similar to an original image. However, these methods have not solved the problem effectively if the missing region is large. In this paper, we focus on how to restore a large missing region in image inpainting. This algorithm is composed of two steps: structure propagation and color propagation. In structure propagation, we segment a large region (non-homogeneous) into several small regions (homogeneous) based on the salient structure of missing region. Then, we applied a simple pixel-based inpainting method called the Fast Marching Method (FMM) to fill in the missing homogeneous regions by color propagation. In the experimental section, we applied several kinds of missing regions, such as irregular and regular missing regions, in large sizes. The results show that our proposed method performs well in various conditions.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3072366