Image Inpainting Using Image Interpolation - An Analysis

Image inpainting is a computer technique of filling lost regions of an image by using available information from the surrounding area. This digital image inpainting technique has wider applications like image restoration, dis-occlusion and image/video compression. The traditional image inpainting approaches Partial Differential Equation (PDE) based method and Exemplar based method mainly focus on the size of the target region to be filled. PDE is a pixel oriented method and works well if the region to be filled is small. On the other hand exemplar based method is a patch based method and works well if the region to be filled is large. This paper proposes another new technique called image interpolation technique and describes how this technique can be used effectively for image inpainting without giving much focus on the size of the target region.