Title: REGION BASED PATCH PROPAGATION AND PATCH INPAINTING FOR IMAGE COMPLETION
Abstract:Film and photography archives nowadays go through an accelerated process of degradation. Since the preservation of cultural heritage plays an important role in our society, photograph/film restoration...Film and photography archives nowadays go through an accelerated process of degradation. Since the preservation of cultural heritage plays an important role in our society, photograph/film restoration has drawn a lot of attention recently. In this paper, an extent of exemplar based inpainting at determining patch priority and patch matching is proposed. Patch priority is defined by two terms: the number of homogeneous regions within the patch (heterogeneous term) obtained by image segmentation and the variance of the pixels within each homogeneous region. The first term prioritizes the heterogeneous patches and the second term defines the inconsistency within each homogeneous region of the heterogeneous patch to discriminate patches having similar heterogeneous term. Patch inpainting is done in two stages. First, the missing pixels of the patch under consideration are interpolated and then a weighted patch matching criterion is applied for finding the candidate patch. Experimental results on damaged digitized photographs and natural images are presented, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the image-completion framework for tasks such as scratch/text, object removal and image inpainting.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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