Image inpainting has achieved fundamental advances with deep learning. However, almost all existing inpainting methods aim to process natural images, while few target Thermal Infrared (TIR) images, which have widespread applications. When applied to TIR images, conventional inpainting methods usually generate distorted or blurry content. In this paper, we propose a novel task -- Thermal Infrared Image Inpainting, which aims to reconstruct missing regions of TIR images. Crucially, we propose a novel deep-learning-based model TIR-Fill. We adopt the edge generator to complete the canny edges of broken TIR images. The completed edges are projected to the normalization weights and biases to enhance edge awareness of the model. In addition, a refinement network based on gated convolution is employed to improve TIR image consistency. The experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art image inpainting approaches on FLIR thermal dataset.
Communication and Information Security Lab Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University（北京大学深圳研究生院通信与信息安全实验室）
Image inpainting approaches have achieved significant progress with the help of deep neural networks. However, existing approaches mainly focus on leveraging the priori distribution learned by neural networks to produce a single inpainting result or further yielding multiple solutions, where the controllability is not well studied. This paper develops a novel image inpainting approach that enables users to customize the inpainting result by their own preference or memory. Specifically, our approach is composed of two stages that utilize the prior of neural network and user's guidance to jointl…
MAGIC: Few-Shot Mask-Guided Anomaly Inpainting with Prompt Perturbation, Spatially Adaptive Guidance, and Context Awareness
Department of AI Semiconductor Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea（汉阳大学人工智能半导体工程系）；Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea（汉阳大学电子工程系）
Aviation University of Air Force（空军航空大学）；JD Explore Academy, JD.COM（京东探索研究院，京东集团）；The University of Melbourne（墨尔本大学）
Currently, single image inpainting has achieved promising results based on deep convolutional neural networks. However, inpainting on stereo images with missing regions has not been explored thoroughly, which is also a significant but different problem. One crucial requirement for stereo image inpainting is stereo consistency. To achieve it, we propose an Iterative Geometry-Aware Cross Guidance Network (IGGNet). The IGGNet contains two key ingredients, i.e., a Geometry-Aware Attention (GAA) module and an Iterative Cross Guidance (ICG) strategy. The GAA module relies on the epipolar geometry cu…
University of Southern California（南加州大学）；Baidu Research（百度研究院）
In this paper, we focus on image inpainting task, aiming at recovering the missing area of an incomplete image given the context information. Recent development in deep generative models enables an efficient end-to-end framework for image synthesis and inpainting tasks, but existing methods based on generative models don't exploit the segmentation information to constrain the object shapes, which usually lead to blurry results on the boundary. To tackle this problem, we propose to introduce the semantic segmentation information, which disentangles the inter-class difference and intra-class var…
Wuhan University（武汉大学）；National Institute of Informatics（国立信息学研究所）；National Tsing Hua University（清华大学）
Completing a corrupted image with correct structures and reasonable textures for a mixed scene remains an elusive challenge. Since the missing hole in a mixed scene of a corrupted image often contains various semantic information, conventional two-stage approaches utilizing structural information often lead to the problem of unreliable structural prediction and ambiguous image texture generation. In this paper, we propose a Semantic Guidance and Evaluation Network (SGE-Net) to iteratively update the structural priors and the inpainted image in an interplay framework of semantics extraction and…
Image inpainting aims at restoring missing region of corrupted images, which has many applications such as image restoration and object removal. However, current GAN-based inpainting models fail to explicitly consider the semantic consistency between restored images and original images. Forexample, given a male image with image region of one eye missing, current models may restore it with a female eye. This is due to the ambiguity of GAN-based inpainting models: these models can generate many possible restorations given a missing region. To address this limitation, our key insight is that sema…
Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院软件研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Kitware（Kitware公司）；Nanjing Institute of Software Technology（南京软件技术研究院）
Image inpainting is an ill-posed problem to recover missing or damaged image content based on incomplete images with masks. Previous works usually predict the auxiliary structures (e.g., edges, segmentation and contours) to help fill visually realistic patches in a multi-stage fashion. However, imprecise auxiliary priors may yield biased inpainted results. Besides, it is time-consuming for some methods to be implemented by multiple stages of complex neural networks. To solve this issue, we develop an end-to-end multi-modality guided transformer network, including one inpainting branch and two …
FaceCom: Towards High-fidelity 3D Facial Shape Completion via Optimization and Inpainting Guidance
Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Southwest University（西南大学）；Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology（北京大学口腔医学院）；State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems（虚拟现实技术与系统国家重点实验室）
Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；Adobe Research（奥多比研究院）；Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）
Generic image inpainting aims to complete a corrupted image by borrowing surrounding information, which barely generates novel content. By contrast, multi-modal inpainting provides more flexible and useful controls on the inpainted content, \eg, a text prompt can be used to describe an object with richer attributes, and a mask can be used to constrain the shape of the inpainted object rather than being only considered as a missing area. We propose a new diffusion-based model named SmartBrush for completing a missing region with an object using both text and shape-guidance. While previous work …
DreamMix: Decoupling Object Attributes for Enhanced Editability in Customized Image Inpainting
Information and Communication Engineering（信息与通信工程）；Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；ZMO.AI Inc.（ZMO.AI公司）；University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
Efficient Zero-Shot Inpainting with Decoupled Diffusion Guidance
CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique（高等理工学院CMAP）；Institute of Foundation Models（基础模型研究所）；MBZUAI（穆扎夫技术研究院）；EPITA；Sorbonne University（索邦大学）；Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center（拉格朗日数学与计算研究中心）；EPITA Research Lab（EPITA研究实验室）；KTH Royal Institute of Technology（皇家理工学院）
University of Texas at Austin（得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；Adobe Research（Adobe研究院）
Deep generative models have shown success in automatically synthesizing missing image regions using surrounding context. However, users cannot directly decide what content to synthesize with such approaches. We propose an end-to-end network for image inpainting that uses a different image to guide the synthesis of new content to fill the hole. A key challenge addressed by our approach is synthesizing new content in regions where the guidance image and the context of the original image are inconsistent. We conduct four studies that demonstrate our results yield more realistic image inpainting r…
Image inpainting is a technique of completing missing pixels such as occluded region restoration, distracting objects removal, and facial completion. Among these inpainting tasks, facial completion algorithm performs face inpainting according to the user direction. Existing approaches require delicate and well controlled input by the user, thus it is difficult for an average user to provide the guidance sufficiently accurate for the algorithm to generate desired results. To overcome this limitation, we propose an alternative user-guided inpainting architecture that manipulates facial attribute…
University of Rochester（罗切斯特大学）；University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Adobe Research（Adobe研究院）
Existing image inpainting methods typically fill holes by borrowing information from surrounding pixels. They often produce unsatisfactory results when the holes overlap with or touch foreground objects due to lack of information about the actual extent of foreground and background regions within the holes. These scenarios, however, are very important in practice, especially for applications such as the removal of distracting objects. To address the problem, we propose a foreground-aware image inpainting system that explicitly disentangles structure inference and content completion. Specifical…
Wuhan University（武汉大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；National Institute of Informatics（国立信息学研究所）
Existing learning-based image inpainting methods are still in challenge when facing complex semantic environments and diverse hole patterns. The prior information learned from the large scale training data is still insufficient for these situations. Reference images captured covering the same scenes share similar texture and structure priors with the corrupted images, which offers new prospects for the image inpainting tasks. Inspired by this, we first build a benchmark dataset containing 10K pairs of input and reference images for reference-guided inpainting. Then we adopt an encoder-decoder …
Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学计算机学院）；Microsoft Research Asia（微软亚洲研究院）；Microsoft（微软）
Language guided image inpainting aims to fill in the defective regions of an image under the guidance of text while keeping non-defective regions unchanged. However, the encoding process of existing models suffers from either receptive spreading of defective regions or information loss of non-defective regions, giving rise to visually unappealing inpainting results. To address the above issues, this paper proposes NÜWA-LIP by incorporating defect-free VQGAN (DF-VQGAN) with multi-perspective sequence to sequence (MP-S2S). In particular, DF-VQGAN introduces relative estimation to control recepti…
Recent advances in image inpainting have shown impressive results for generating plausible visual details on rather simple backgrounds. However, for complex scenes, it is still challenging to restore reasonable contents as the contextual information within the missing regions tends to be ambiguous. To tackle this problem, we introduce pretext tasks that are semantically meaningful to estimating the missing contents. In particular, we perform knowledge distillation on pretext models and adapt the features to image inpainting. The learned semantic priors ought to be partially invariant between t…
Manchester Metropolitan University（曼彻斯特城市大学）；Image Metrics Ltd（Image Metrics 公司）
Facial image inpainting, with high-fidelity preservation for image realism, is a very challenging task. This is due to the subtle texture in key facial features (component) that are not easily transferable. Many image inpainting techniques have been proposed with outstanding capabilities and high quantitative performances recorded. However, with facial inpainting, the features are more conspicuous and the visual quality of the blended inpainted regions are more important qualitatively. Based on these facts, we design a foreground-guided facial inpainting framework that can extract and generate…
Image AID via continuous-time reinforcement learning
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA（工业工程与运筹学系，哥伦比亚大学，纽约，NY 10027，美国）；Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research & Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA（工业工程与运筹学系及数据科学研究所，哥伦比亚大学，纽约，NY 10027，美国）
Previous works on image inpainting mainly focus on inpainting background or partially missing objects, while the problem of inpainting an entire missing object remains unexplored. This work studies a new image inpainting task, i.e. shape-guided object inpainting. Given an incomplete input image, the goal is to fill in the hole by generating an object based on the context and implicit guidance given by the hole shape. Since previous methods for image inpainting are mainly designed for background inpainting, they are not suitable for this task. Therefore, we propose a new data preparation method…
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）
Recent advances in deep generative adversarial networks (GAN) and self-attention mechanism have led to significant improvements in the challenging task of inpainting large missing regions in an image. These methods integrate self-attention mechanism in neural networks to utilize surrounding neural elements based on their correlation and help the networks capture long-range dependencies. Temperature is a parameter in the Softmax function used in the self-attention, and it enables biasing the distribution of attention scores towards a handful of similar patches. Most existing self-attention mech…
Controllable Localized Face Anonymization Via Diffusion Inpainting
Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS)（机器视觉与信号分析中心）；University of Oulu（奥卢大学）；ELLIS Institute Finland（芬兰ELLIS研究所）；The Machine Learning Group（机器学习小组）；UiT The Arctic University of Norway（挪威北冰洋大学）
When Test-Time Guidance Is Enough: Fast Image and Video Editing with Diffusion Guidance
CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique（巴黎综合理工学院CMAP实验室）；Institute of Foundation Models（基础模型研究所）；MBZUAI（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）；EPITA（法国高等信息技术学院）；Sorbonne University（索邦大学）；Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center（拉格朗日数学与计算研究中心）；EPITA Research Lab（EPITA研究实验室）；KTH Royal Institute of Technology（瑞典皇家理工学院）
Diffusion Models for Solving Inverse Problems via Posterior Sampling with Piecewise Guidance
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering（电气与计算机工程系）；Virginia Tech（弗吉尼亚理工大学）；Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering（电气电子工程系）；Institute of Science（科学研究所）
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）
Image inpainting task requires filling the corrupted image with contents coherent with the context. This research field has achieved promising progress by using neural image inpainting methods. Nevertheless, there is still a critical challenge in guessing the missed content with only the context pixels. The goal of this paper is to fill the semantic information in corrupted images according to the provided descriptive text. Unique from existing text-guided image generation works, the inpainting models are required to compare the semantic content of the given text and the remaining part of the …
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Adobe Research（奥多比研究院）；ByteDance AI Lab（字节跳动人工智能实验室）
We present a generative image inpainting system to complete images with free-form mask and guidance. The system is based on gated convolutions learned from millions of images without additional labelling efforts. The proposed gated convolution solves the issue of vanilla convolution that treats all input pixels as valid ones, generalizes partial convolution by providing a learnable dynamic feature selection mechanism for each channel at each spatial location across all layers. Moreover, as free-form masks may appear anywhere in images with any shape, global and local GANs designed for a single…
