An Image Inpainting Technique Based on the Fast Marching Method
Abstract
Digital inpainting provides a means for reconstruction of small damaged portions of an image. Although the inpainting basics are straightforward, most inpainting techniques published in the literature are complex to understand and implement. We present here a new algorithm for digital inpainting based on the fast marching method for level set applications. Our algorithm is very simple to implement, fast, and produces nearly identical results to more complex, and usually slower, known methods. Source code is available online.
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- Authors
- Telea, A.
- Affiliations
- Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Telea, Alexandru
- ORCID
- Telea, Alexandru
- Venue
- Journal of Graphics Tools
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2004-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 23-34
- ISSN
- 1086-7651 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2012875423
- Cited by
- 1,421
- References
- 12
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- FWCI
- 7.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Graphics Tools (publishedVersion)
- TU/e Research Portal (publishedVersion)
- TU/e Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Signal Denoising Methods
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Keywords
- image inpainting, fast marching method, level set method, image reconstruction, computational efficiency
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