InpaintingMarcelo Bertalm´ıo, Vicent Caselles, Simon Masnou, GuillermoSapiroSynonyms– Disocclusion– Completion– Filling-in– Error concealmentRelated Concepts– Texture synthesisDefinitionGiven an image and a region Ω inside it, the inpainting problem consistsin modifying the image values of the pixels in Ω so that this region does notstand out with respect to its surroundings
The purpose of inpainting might beto restoredamagedportions of an image (e
an old photograph where folds andscratches have left image gaps) or to remove unwanted elements present in theimage (e
a microphone appearing in a film frame)
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The region Ωis always given by the user, so the localization of Ω is not part of the inpaintingproblem
Almost all inpainting algorithms treat Ω as a hard constraint,