Improved Exemplar Based Texture Synthesis Method for Natural Scene Image Completion

Image inpainting or image completion refers to the process of filling in the missing data of an image in a visually plausible way. Given a natural scene input image with selected target regions, both the geometrical property and texture information should be propagated from the known parts of image into the target regions. Exemplar-based model fills the target region using the source exemplars in the known parts of image. Many works on this subject have been proposed these recent years. In this paper, we present an inpainting method based on the improved exemplarbased texture synthesis technique which includes image gradient information during the inpainting process. A comparison with some existing methods on different natural images shows the strength of the proposed approach.