EXPLORING CONTOUR AND TEXTURE FEATURES FOR CONTEXT-AWARE PATCH-BASED INPAINTING

These are the results accompanying the paper "Exploring contour and texture features for context-aware patch-based inpainting" submitted to the STSIVA 2013 conference.

We compared the proposed method with the following state-of-the-art methods:
[1] A. Criminisi, P. Perez, and K.Toyama, “Region filling and object removal by exemplar-based image inpainting,” IEEE Trans. on Image Proc., vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 1200–1212, Sep. 2004.
[2] O. L. Meur, J. Gautier, and C. Guillemot, “Examplar-based inpainting based on local geometry,” In ICIP 2011, pp. 3462-3465 (2011)
[3] O. L. Meur and C. Guillemot, “Super-resolution-based inpainting,” in ECCV, 2012, pp. 554–567.
[4] Content Aware Fill of Adobe PhotoShop CS5

Comparison with the state-of-the-art methods

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Result of [2]

Result of [1]

Result of the proposed method

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Result of [4]

Result of [1]

Result of the proposed method

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Result of [4]

Result of [1]

Result of the proposed method

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Result of [4]

Result of [3]

Result of the proposed method

Dependence of the result of the proposed method on the block division while keeping the patch size fixed (17x17)

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3x4 blocks

4x6 blocks

5x7 blocks

6x9 blocks

Dependence of the result of the proposed method on the patch size while keeping the block division fixed (4x5 blocks)

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Patch size 9x9

Patch size 11x11

Patch size 13x13

Patch size 15x15

Patch size 17x17