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A Nonlocal Feature-Driven Exemplar-Based Approach for Image Inpainting

by Viktor Reshniak, Jeremy Trageser, Clayton G Webster
Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
Publication Date
Page Numbers
2140 to 2168
Volume
13
Issue
4

We present a nonlocal variational image completion technique which admits simultaneous inpainting of multiple structures and textures in a unified framework. The recovery of geometric structures is achieved by using general convolution operators as a measure of behavior within an image. These are combined with a nonlocal exemplar-based approach to exploit the self-similarity of an image in the selected feature domains and to ensure the inpainting of textures. We also introduce an anisotropic patch distance metric to allow for better control of the feature selection within an image and present a nonlocal energy functional based on this metric. Finally, we derive an optimization algorithm for the proposed variational model and examine its validity experimentally with various test images.