Inpainting
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Inpainting is the process of reconstructing lost or deteriorated parts of images and videos. For instance, in the case of a valuable painting, this task would be carried out by a skilled image restoration artist. In the digital world, inpainting (also known as image interpolation or video interpolation) refers to the application of sophisticated algorithms to recover lost or corrupted parts of the image data.
[edit] Applications
There are many objectives and applications of this technique. Restoring an image to remove noise, improve brightness, color and details.
In photography and cinema, is used for film restoration; to reverse the deterioration (e.g., cracks in photographs or scratches and dust spots in film; see infrared cleaning). It is also used for removing red- eye, the stamped date from photographs and removing objects to creative effect.
This technique can also be used to recover the lost blocks in the coding and transmission of images, for example, in a streaming video.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Peterson, Ivars (May 11 2002). "Filling in Blanks". Science News 161 (19): 299-300.
- Inpainting and the Fundamental Problem of Image Processing, SIAM
- Image Inpainting, by the Image Processing Group at UCLA.
- Image and Video Inpainting by Guillermo Sapiro.
- Image Inpainting by Wing Yung and A.J. Shankar.
- GREYCstoration. An open source image denoising and inpainting toolbox.
