Project Description

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We present a system for filling holes in an image by copying patches from elsewhere in the image. These patches should be a good continuation of the hole boundary into the hole. There is typically no “right answer” as we are extrapolating image data into an unknown region. For this reason, human observers giving varying levels of “it looks pretty good/realistic” responses to the output image is usually the only metric used to judge the quality of such algorithms. This implementation is intended to serve as a reference implementation of a frequently cited algorithm for patch-based inpainting, as well as to provide a framework for users to easily experiment with modifications to such methods.

Several ideas implemented in this work were taken from or inspired by the algorithm described in “Object Removal by Exemplar-Based Inpainting” by Criminisi et. al.

The code is available here.