An improved structure propagation based image inpainting
B. Naveena Bai, Zhenjiang Miao, Zhen Tang · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2011
Image inpainting technique has been widely used for completing missing parts caused by the removal of foreground or background elements from an image in a plausible way. A novel and efficient image inpainting method is proposed in this paper. First, structure propagation is used to synthesize regions in the unknown region along these salient structures specified by user. After structure completion, a finer algorithm is used to fill in the remaining unknown regions. It can prevent from erroneous matching blocks and reduce the breaking of salient structures which human eyes are sensitive to. Experiment results show the high efficiency and quality of the algorithm.