Inpainting large missing regions based on Seam Carving

• Published in: EAI endorsed transactions on industrial networks and intelligent systems Vol. 5; no. 16; p. 156000
• Main Authors: Al-Jaberi, Ahmed, Jassim, Sabah, Al-Jawad, Naseer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ghent European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 01.11.2018
• Subjects: energy function; exemplar-based inpainting; partial differential equation-based inpainting methods; Partial differential equations; seam carving; Seams
• ISSN: 2410-0218; 2410-0218
• DOI: 10.4108/eai.29-11-2018.156000

Inpainting techniques are developed to recover missing image information. Existing inpainting approaches are: Partial Differential Equations Based Inpainting (PDE-BI) and Exemplar-Based Inpainting (EBI). PDE-BI methods used to fill in the missing information via information propagation from neighbouring areas. However, it can only reconstruct successfully small missing regions that are surrounded by limited texture. However, EBI methods are used to recover large regions with richly-textured/structured areas around them, moreover, artefacts are likely to occur. This paper proposes a technique to reduce the missing region size based on seam carving approach, which enables EBI and PDE-BI to recover the missing part. In our proposal, seam carving is used to reduce only the size of the missing region, to be subsequently recovered using EBI method. The added extra paths resulting from the added seams is repaired using PDE-BI. This method outperformed the state-of-art EBI methods.