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In recent years inpainting-based compression methods have been shown to be a viable alternative to classical codecs such as JPEG and JPEG2000. Unlike transform-based codecs, which store coefficients in the transform domain, inpainting-based…

Diffusion-based inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from sparse data, provided that their location and their values are well optimised. This is particularly useful for applications such as image compression,…

Inpainting-based compression methods are qualitatively promising alternatives to transform-based codecs, but they suffer from the high computational cost of the inpainting step. This prevents them from being applicable to time-critical…

With well-selected data, homogeneous diffusion inpainting can reconstruct images from sparse data with high quality. While 4K colour images of size 3840 x 2160 can already be inpainted in real time, optimising the known data for…

Some recent methods for lossy signal and image compression store only a few selected pixels and fill in the missing structures by inpainting with a partial differential equation (PDE). Suitable operators include the Laplacian, the…

Inpainting-based image compression is a promising alternative to classical transform-based lossy codecs. Typically it stores a carefully selected subset of all pixel locations and their colour values. In the decoding phase the missing…

Harmonic inpainting with optimised data is very popular for inpainting-based image compression. We improve this approach in three important aspects. Firstly, we replace the standard finite differences discretisation by a finite element…

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…

Painterly image harmonization aims to insert photographic objects into paintings and obtain artistically coherent composite images. Previous methods for this task mainly rely on inference optimization or generative adversarial network, but…

Free-form image inpainting is the task of reconstructing parts of an image specified by an arbitrary binary mask. In this task, it is typically desired to generalize model capabilities to unseen mask types, rather than learning certain mask…

With the advancements in denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), image inpainting has significantly evolved from merely filling information based on nearby regions to generating content conditioned on various prompts such as text,…

Compression methods based on inpainting are an evolving alternative to classical transform-based codecs for still images. Attempts to apply these ideas to video compression are rare, since reaching real-time performance is very challenging.…

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…

While local methods for image denoising and inpainting may use similar concepts, their connections have hardly been investigated so far. The goal of this work is to establish links between the two by focusing on the most foundational…

Digital image inpainting refers to techniques used to reconstruct a damaged or incomplete image by exploiting available image information. The main goal of this work is to perform the image inpainting process from a set of sparsely…

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

The problem of inpainting involves reconstructing the missing areas of an image. Inpainting has many applications, such as reconstructing old damaged photographs or removing obfuscations from images. In this paper we present the directional…

Diffusion models have achieved great success in synthesizing high-quality images. However, generating high-resolution images with diffusion models is still challenging due to the enormous computational costs, resulting in a prohibitive…

This paper presents PipeFusion, an innovative parallel methodology to tackle the high latency issues associated with generating high-resolution images using diffusion transformers (DiTs) models. PipeFusion partitions images into patches and…

A recently designed hyperspectral imaging device enables multiplexed acquisition of an entire data volume in a single snapshot thanks to monolithically-integrated spectral filters. Such an agile imaging technique comes at the cost of a…