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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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Lingzhi Pan , Tong Zhang , Bingyuan Chen , Qi Zhou , Wei Ke , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Generative image inpainting can produce realistic, high-fidelity results even with large, irregular masks. However, existing methods still face key issues that make inpainted images look unnatural. In this paper, we identify two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yikai Wang , Junqiu Yu , Chenjie Cao , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Recent advances in image inpainting increasingly use generative models to handle large irregular masks. However, these models can create unrealistic inpainted images due to two main issues: (1) Unwanted object insertion: Even with unmasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yikai Wang , Chenjie Cao , Junqiu Yu , Ke Fan , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

In this work, we present Patch-Adapter, an effective framework for high-resolution text-guided image inpainting. Unlike existing methods limited to lower resolutions, our approach achieves 4K+ resolution while maintaining precise content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jianhui Zhang , Sheng Cheng , Qirui Sun , Jia Liu , Wang Luyang , Chaoyu Feng , Chen Fang , Lei Lei , Jue Wang , Shuaicheng Liu

While many image colorization algorithms have recently shown the capability of producing plausible color versions from gray-scale photographs, they still suffer from limited semantic understanding. To address this shortcoming, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Jiaojiao Zhao , Jungong Han , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek

Existing inpainting methods have achieved promising performance in recovering defected images of specific scenes. However, filling holes involving multiple semantic categories remains challenging due to the obscure semantic boundaries and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Zheng Wang , Chia-Wen Lin , Shin'ichi Satoh

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

Image inpainting is a technique of completing missing pixels such as occluded region restoration, distracting objects removal, and facial completion. Among these inpainting tasks, facial completion algorithm performs face inpainting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Dongsik Yoon , Jeonggi Kwak , Yuanming Li , David Han , Youngsaeng Jin , Hanseok Ko

Image forgery is a topic that has been studied for many years. Before the breakthrough of deep learning, forged images were detected using handcrafted features that did not require training. These traditional methods failed to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Eren Tahir , Mert Bal

It is challenging to inpaint face images in the wild, due to the large variation of appearance, such as different poses, expressions and occlusions. A good inpainting algorithm should guarantee the realism of output, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yang Yang , Xiaojie Guo , Jiayi Ma , Lin Ma , Haibin Ling

Image inpainting approaches have achieved significant progress with the help of deep neural networks. However, existing approaches mainly focus on leveraging the priori distribution learned by neural networks to produce a single inpainting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Wangbo Yu , Jinhao Du , Ruixin Liu , Yixuan Li , Yuesheng zhu

Previous works on image inpainting mainly focus on inpainting background or partially missing objects, while the problem of inpainting an entire missing object remains unexplored. This work studies a new image inpainting task, i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yu Zeng , Zhe Lin , Vishal M. Patel

The purpose of image inpainting is to recover scratches and damaged areas using context information from remaining parts. In recent years, thanks to the resurgence of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), image inpainting task has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zeyu Lu , Junjun Jiang , Junqin Huang , Gang Wu , Xianming Liu

The new alternative is to use deep learning to inpaint any image by utilizing image classification and computer vision techniques. In general, image inpainting is a task of recreating or reconstructing any broken image which could be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Narayana Darapaneni , Vaibhav Kherde , Kameswara Rao , Deepali Nikam , Swanand Katdare , Anima Shukla , Anagha Lomate , Anwesh Reddy Paduri

In this paper, we focus on image inpainting task, aiming at recovering the missing area of an incomplete image given the context information. Recent development in deep generative models enables an efficient end-to-end framework for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yuhang Song , Chao Yang , Yeji Shen , Peng Wang , Qin Huang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Image inpainting is a key technique in image processing task to predict the missing regions and generate realistic images. Given the advancement of existing generative inpainting models with feature extraction, propagation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Jireh Jam , Connah Kendrick , Vincent Drouard , Kevin Walker , Moi Hoon Yap

Recent advances in deep learning have shown exciting promise in filling large holes and lead to another orientation for image inpainting. However, existing learning-based methods often create artifacts and fallacious textures because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Qingguo Xiao , Guangyao Li , Qiaochuan Chen

Despite advances in diffusion-based image editing, manipulating multi-object scenes remains challenging. Existing approaches often achieve semantic changes at the expense of structural consistency, failing to preserve exact object counts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Fei Shen , Yutong Gao , Jian Yu , Xiaoyu Du , Jinhui Tang

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ferdinand Jost , Vassillen Chizhov , Joachim Weickert

Facial image inpainting, with high-fidelity preservation for image realism, is a very challenging task. This is due to the subtle texture in key facial features (component) that are not easily transferable. Many image inpainting techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Jireh Jam , Connah Kendrick , Vincent Drouard , Kevin Walker , Moi Hoon Yap