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Image inpainting aims to restore the missing regions of corrupted images and make the recovery result identical to the originally complete image, which is different from the common generative task emphasizing the naturalness or realism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Felix Juefei-Xu , Hongkai Yu , Yang Liu , Song wang

In this paper, we address the problem of degradation in inpainting quality of neural networks operating at high resolutions. Inpainting networks are often unable to generate globally coherent structures at resolutions higher than their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Prakhar Kulshreshtha , Brian Pugh , Salma Jiddi

Facial Image inpainting aim is to restore the missing or corrupted regions in face images while preserving identity, structural consistency and photorealistic image quality, a task specifically created for photo restoration. Though there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhigyan Bhattacharya , Hiranmoy Roy , Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Image Inpainting is one of the very popular tasks in the field of image processing with broad applications in computer vision. In various practical applications, images are often deteriorated by noise due to the presence of corrupted, lost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Harsh Patel , Amey Kulkarni , Shivam Sahni , Udit Vyas

Images can be viewed as layered compositions, foreground objects over background, with potential occlusions. This layered representation enables independent editing of elements, offering greater flexibility for content creation. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jingxi Chen , Yixiao Zhang , Xiaoye Qian , Zongxia Li , Cornelia Fermuller , Caren Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos

Given an incomplete image without additional constraint, image inpainting natively allows for multiple solutions as long as they appear plausible. Recently, multiplesolution inpainting methods have been proposed and shown the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Jialun Peng , Dong Liu , Songcen Xu , Houqiang Li

Recent deep learning based image inpainting methods which utilize contextual information and two-stage architecture have exhibited remarkable performance. However, the two-stage architecture is time-consuming, the contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Hongyu Liu , Bin Jiang , Wei Huang , Chao Yang

A recent paper by Gatys et al. describes a method for rendering an image in the style of another image. First, they use convolutional neural network features to build a statistical model for the style of an image. Then they create a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Alexander G. Anderson , Cory P. Berg , Daniel P. Mossing , Bruno A. Olshausen

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality (HQ) images from degraded low-quality (LQ) ones by reversing the effects of degradation. Existing generative models for image restoration, including diffusion and score-based models, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haina Qin , Wenyang Luo , Libin Wang , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Diffusion models are now the undisputed state-of-the-art for image generation and image restoration. However, they require large amounts of computational power for training and inference. In this paper, we propose lightweight diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

Image smoothing is a fundamental task in computer vision, that aims to retain salient structures and remove insignificant textures. In this paper, we aim to address the fundamental shortcomings of existing image smoothing methods, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Kaiyue Lu , Shaodi You , Nick Barnes

We present a novel up-resing technique for generating high-resolution liquids based on scene flow estimation using deep neural networks. Our approach infers and synthesizes small- and large-scale details solely from a low-resolution…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Bruno Roy , Pierre Poulin , Eric Paquette

Neural reconstruction approaches are rapidly emerging as the preferred representation for 3D scenes, but their limited editability is still posing a challenge. In this work, we propose an approach for 3D scene inpainting -- the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ashkan Mirzaei , Riccardo De Lutio , Seung Wook Kim , David Acuna , Jonathan Kelly , Sanja Fidler , Igor Gilitschenski , Zan Gojcic

Existing image inpainting methods typically fill holes by borrowing information from surrounding pixels. They often produce unsatisfactory results when the holes overlap with or touch foreground objects due to lack of information about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Wei Xiong , Jiahui Yu , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Connelly Barnes , Jiebo Luo

Image inpainting is the task of filling-in missing regions of a damaged or incomplete image. In this work we tackle this problem not only by using the available visual data but also by incorporating image semantics through the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Patricia Vitoria , Joan Sintes , Coloma Ballester

Image inpainting is an ill-posed problem to recover missing or damaged image content based on incomplete images with masks. Previous works usually predict the auxiliary structures (e.g., edges, segmentation and contours) to help fill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yongsheng Yu , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Tiejian Luo

Image downscaling is one of the key operations in recent display technology and visualization tools. By this process, the dimension of an image is reduced, aiming to preserve structural integrity and visual fidelity. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 G B Kevin Arjun , Suvrojit Mitra , Sanjay Ghosh

Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang

Diffusion-based inpainting is a powerful tool for the reconstruction of images from sparse data. Its quality strongly depends on the choice of known data. Optimising their spatial location -- the inpainting mask -- is challenging. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Tobias Alt , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert

Image inpainting has achieved fundamental advances with deep learning. However, almost all existing inpainting methods aim to process natural images, while few target Thermal Infrared (TIR) images, which have widespread applications. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zeyu Wang , Haibin Shen , Changyou Men , Quan Sun , Kejie Huang