Digital inpainting - Survey and multilayer image inpainting algorithms

Timothy K. Shih, Rong Chi Chang

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Abstract

Digital inpainting uses spatial or frequency information to restore partially damaged/removed photos and artworks. Digital image inpainting is an interesting new research topic in multimedia computing and image processing since 2000. This talk will cover the most recent contributions in digital image inpainting and image completion, as well as concepts in video inpainting. In addition to a quick survey, the presentation will cover several algorithms. Most restoration algorithms consider a picture as a single layer. The talk will cover a new approach, which divides a Chinese painting into several layers. Each layer is inpainted separately. A layer fusion mechanism then finds the optimal inpaint among layers, which are restored layer-by-layer. We apply the algorithm on Chinese and western drawing. The result shows a highPSNR value as well as a high user satisfaction. The demonstration of our work is available http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/demos/inpaint.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2005
Pages15-24
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2005 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 4 Jul 20057 Jul 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - 3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2005
VolumeI

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2005
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period4/07/057/07/05

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