Automatic image inpainting by heuristic texture and structure completion

  • Authors:
  • Xiaowu Chen;Fang Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, P.R. China;State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • MMM'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper studies an image inpainting solution based on a primal sketch representation model [1], which divides an image into structure (sketchable) and texture (non-sketchable) components. This solution first predicts the missing structures, such as curves and corners, using a tensor voting algorithm [2]. Then the texture parts along structural sketches are synthesized with the patches sampled from the known regions, and the remaining texture parts are defused using a graph cuts algorithm [3]. Compared to the state-of-art image inpainting approaches, the characteristics of this solution include: 1) using the primal sketch representation model to guide completion for visual consistency; 2) achieving fully automatic completion. Finally, the experiments on the public datasets show above characteristics.