Image Inpainting : Overview and Recent Advances

Image inpainting refers to the process of restoring missing or damaged areas in an image. This field of research has been very active over recent years, boosted by numerous applications: restoring images from scratches or text overlays, loss concealment in a context of impaired image transmission, object removal in a context of editing, or disocclusion in image-based rendering (IBR) of viewpoints different from those captured by the cameras. Although earlier work dealing with disocclusion has been published in 1, the term inpainting first appeared in 2 by analogy with a process used in art restoration.