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Image inpainting refers to the restoration of an image with missing regions in a way that is not detectable by the observer. The inpainting regions can be of any size and shape. This is an ill-posed inverse problem that does not have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Coloma Ballester , Aurelie Bugeau , Samuel Hurault , Simone Parisotto , Patricia Vitoria

Image inpainting is the task of reconstructing missing or damaged parts of an image in a way that seamlessly blends with the surrounding content. With the advent of advanced generative models, especially diffusion models and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xingzhong Hou , Jie Wu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Guanglu Song , Yunpeng Liu , Yu Liu , Haihang You

Image inpainting is the process of taking an image and generating lost or intentionally occluded portions. Inpainting has countless applications including restoring previously damaged pictures, restoring the quality of images that have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Eyoel Gebre , Krishna Saxena , Timothy Tran

Visible watermark removal which involves watermark cleaning and background content restoration is pivotal to evaluate the resilience of watermarks. Existing deep neural network (DNN)-based models still struggle with large-area watermarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yicheng Leng , Chaowei Fang , Junye Chen , Yixiang Fang , Sheng Li , Guanbin Li

Deep convolutional networks (CNNs) have exhibited their potential in image inpainting for producing plausible results. However, in most existing methods, e.g., context encoder, the missing parts are predicted by propagating the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Zhaoyi Yan , Xiaoming Li , Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shiguang Shan

Several imaging applications (vessels, retina, plant roots, road networks from satellites) require the accurate segmentation of thin structures for subsequent analysis. Discontinuities (gaps) in the extracted foreground may hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Hao Chen , Mario Valerio Giuffrida , Peter Doerner , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Recently deep neutral networks have achieved promising performance for filling large missing regions in image inpainting tasks. They usually adopted the standard convolutional architecture over the corrupted image, leading to meaningless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yuqing Ma , Xianglong Liu , Shihao Bai , Lei Wang , Aishan Liu , Dacheng Tao , Edwin Hancock

Image inpainting, the process of restoring missing or corrupted regions of an image by reconstructing pixel information, has recently seen considerable advancements through deep learning-based approaches. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Kourosh Kiani , Razieh Rastgoo , Alireza Chaji , Sergio Escalera

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

Video inpainting aims to fill spatio-temporal holes with plausible content in a video. Despite tremendous progress of deep neural networks for image inpainting, it is challenging to extend these methods to the video domain due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Dahun Kim , Sanghyun Woo , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

Face inpainting requires the model to have a precise global understanding of the facial position structure. Benefiting from the powerful capabilities of deep learning backbones, recent works in face inpainting have achieved decent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Bo Zhao , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu

Most convolutional network (CNN)-based inpainting methods adopt standard convolution to indistinguishably treat valid pixels and holes, making them limited in handling irregular holes and more likely to generate inpainting results with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Chaohao Xie , Shaohui Liu , Chao Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Wangmeng Zuo , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen , Errui Ding

For few-shot learning, it is still a critical challenge to realize photo-realistic face visually dubbing on high-resolution videos. Previous works fail to generate high-fidelity dubbing results. To address the above problem, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhimeng Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Wenjin Deng , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding

Image inpainting refers to the task of generating a complete, natural image based on a partially revealed reference image. Recently, many research interests have been focused on addressing this problem using fixed diffusion models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Guanhua Zhang , Jiabao Ji , Yang Zhang , Mo Yu , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang

Inpainting arbitrary missing regions is challenging because learning valid features for various masked regions is nontrivial. Though U-shaped encoder-decoder frameworks have been witnessed to be successful, most of them share a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Manyu Zhu , Dongliang He , Xin Li , Chao Li , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Errui Ding , Zhaoxiang Zhang

This paper introduces a blind watermarking based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). We propose an iterative learning framework to secure robustness of watermarking. One loop of learning process consists of the following three stages:…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Seung-Min Mun , Seung-Hun Nam , Han-Ul Jang , Dongkyu Kim , Heung-Kyu Lee

Patch-based methods and deep networks have been employed to tackle image inpainting problem, with their own strengths and weaknesses. Patch-based methods are capable of restoring a missing region with high-quality texture through searching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rui Xu , Minghao Guo , Jiaqi Wang , Xiaoxiao Li , Bolei Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Self-supervised learning has proven to be invaluable in making best use of all of the available data in biomedical image segmentation. One particularly simple and effective mechanism to achieve self-supervision is inpainting, the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Subhradeep Kayal , Shuai Chen , Marleen de Bruijne

Most deep learning based image inpainting approaches adopt autoencoder or its variants to fill missing regions in images. Encoders are usually utilized to learn powerful representational spaces, which are important for dealing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Xin Ma , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Huaibo Huang , Zhenhua Chai , Xiaolin Wei , Ran He

Image inpainting methods have shown significant improvements by using deep neural networks recently. However, many of these techniques often create distorted structures or blurry textures inconsistent with surrounding areas. The problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan