Recent image inpainting methods show promising results due to the power of deep learning, which can explore external information available from a large training dataset. However, many state-of-the-art inpainting networks are still limited in exploiting internal information available in the given input image at test time. To mitigate this problem, we present a novel and efficient self-supervised fine-tuning algorithm that can adapt the parameters of fully pre-trained inpainting networks without using ground-truth target images. We update the parameters of the pre-trained state-of-the-art inpainting networks by utilizing existing self-similar patches within the given input image without changing network architecture and improve the inpainting quality by a large margin. Qualitative and quantitative experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm, and we achieve state-of-the-art inpainting results on publicly available numerous benchmark datasets.
@article{arxiv.2102.08078,
title = {Restore from Restored: Single-image Inpainting},
author = {Eunhye Lee and Jeongmu Kim and Jisu Kim and Tae Hyun Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08078},
year = {2021}
}