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Image Inpainting Software

Image inpainting and texture synthesis techniques are used to repair damaged digital pictures or remove unwanted objects. Image inpainting refers to the process of changing an image so that the change is not noticeable by an observer. It is usually applied to the task of restoring damaged images and is considered an art for the careful artist's eye it takes to get all the details right.

ImageCompletion is a Windows XP software tool for performing image completion by filling in the "holes" in an image.

The general idea behind image inpainting is to look at the contours of the image and to try to
extend them into the masked region in a continuous manner. The places where these contours are most prominent is along edges. This algorithm tries to extend these edges and the colors between them correctly so that they match up across the mask.

The algorithm consists of several iterations of "inpainting" followed by an iteration of anisotropic diffusion. We wrote the inpainting code ourselves and adapted Robert Estes' implementation of Adel's MCD algorithm for anisotropic diffusion.