Geometry-Aware Image Completion via Multiple Examples

Wang, Guihang; Chen, Xuejin; Hu, Siyu

Geometry-Aware Image Completion via Multiple Examples

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Date

2014

Authors

Wang, Guihang
Chen, Xuejin
Hu, Siyu

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

When browsing through photographs taken during a trip, it can be a distressing discovery to find many other bystanders captured within the frame. A visually compelling snapshot preserves the desired subject in the foreground, and eliminates irrelevant persons or objects. In this paper, we present a new image completion algorithm that retains the geometric consistency of the scene using Internet photo collections. Our key insight allows us to successfully fill the missing regions with content derived from related images with distinct features, or from visible parts of the input image with repetitive textures. The final composition for the missing regions is guided by a confidence map combining the two types of example images. We validate our algorithm on a variety of scenes which are challenging for state-of-the-art completion techniques. The completion results successfully preserve the geometry consistency for complex structures in a wide range of depths.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/pgs.20141259
,
booktitle = {Pacific Graphics Short Papers
},
editor = {John Keyser and Young J. Kim and Peter Wonka
},
title = {{Geometry-Aware Image Completion via Multiple Examples
}},
author = {Wang, Guihang and 
Chen, Xuejin and 
Hu, Siyu
},
year = {2014
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-73-6
},
DOI = {/10.2312/pgs.20141259
}
}