Image Renaissance Using Discrete Optimization

  • Authors:
  • Cedric Allene;Nikos Paragios

  • Affiliations:
  • ENPC-CERTIS and ESIEE-A2SI, France;ENPC-CERTIS and ESIEE-A2SI, France

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 03
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel technique to image completion that addresses image renaissance through a graph-based matching process. To this end, a number of candidate seeds with content similar to the one of the area to be inpainted are considered. They are selected through a particle filter method and then positioned over the missing area. Markov Random Fields are used to formalize inpainting as a labeling estimation problem while a combinatorial approach is used to recover the optimal partition of patches that completes the missing area with the á-expansion process. Promising results in image and texture completion demonstrate the potentials of the proposed method.