Thinking inside the Convolution for Image Inpainting: Reconstructing Texture via Structure under Global and Local Side
School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology（合肥工业大学计算机科学与信息工程学院）；Department of Automation, Tsinghua University（清华大学自动化系）；Lenovo Research（联想研究院）
Haipeng Liu, Yang Wang, Biao Qian, Yong Rui, Meng Wang
Image inpainting has earned substantial progress, owing to the encoder-and-decoder pipeline, which is benefited from the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with convolutional downsampling to inpaint the masked regions semantically from the known regions within the encoder, coupled with an upsampling process from the decoder for final inpainting output. Recent studies intuitively identify the high-frequency structure and low-frequency texture to be extracted by CNNs from the encoder, and subsequently for a desirable upsampling recovery. However, the existing arts inevitably overlook the information loss for both structure and texture feature maps during the convolutional downsampling process, hence suffer from a non-ideal upsampling output. In this paper, we systematically answer whether and how the structure and texture feature map can mutually help to alleviate the information loss during the convolutional downsampling. Given the structure and texture feature maps, we adopt the statistical normalization and denormalization strategy for the reconstruction guidance during the convolutional downsampling process. The extensive experimental results validate its advantages to the state-of-the-arts over the images from low-to-high resolutions including 256*256 and 512*512, especially holds by substituting all the encoders by ours. Our code is available at https://github.com/htyjers/ConvInpaint-TSGL
The problem of inpainting involves reconstructing the missing areas of an image. Inpainting has many applications, such as reconstructing old damaged photographs or removing obfuscations from images. In this paper we present the directional diffusion algorithm for inpainting. Typical diffusion algorithms are bad at propagating edges from the image into the unknown masked regions. The directional diffusion algorithm improves on the regular diffusion algorithm by reconstructing edges more accurately. It scores better than regular diffusion when reconstructing images that are obfuscated by a text…
Inpainting is the technique of reconstructing unknown or damaged portions of an image in a visually plausible way. Inpainting algorithm automatically fills the damaged region in an image using the information available in undamaged region. Propagation of structure and texture information becomes a challenge as the size of damaged area increases. In this paper, a hierarchical inpainting algorithm using wavelets is proposed. The hierarchical method tries to keep the mask size smaller while wavelets help in handling the high pass structure information and low pass texture information separately. …
Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Baidu Inc.（百度公司）；Nankai University（南开大学）
Most convolutional network (CNN)-based inpainting methods adopt standard convolution to indistinguishably treat valid pixels and holes, making them limited in handling irregular holes and more likely to generate inpainting results with color discrepancy and blurriness. Partial convolution has been suggested to address this issue, but it adopts handcrafted feature re-normalization, and only considers forward mask-updating. In this paper, we present a learnable attention map module for learning feature renormalization and mask-updating in an end-to-end manner, which is effective in adapting to i…
Great Learning/Northwestern University（Great Learning/西北大学）；Great Learning
The new alternative is to use deep learning to inpaint any image by utilizing image classification and computer vision techniques. In general, image inpainting is a task of recreating or reconstructing any broken image which could be a photograph or oil/acrylic painting. With the advancement in the field of Artificial Intelligence, this topic has become popular among AI enthusiasts. With our approach, we propose an initial end-to-end pipeline for inpainting images using a complete Machine Learning approach instead of a conventional application-based approach. We first use the YOLO model to aut…
Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Peng Cheng Lab（鹏城实验室）；DAMO Academy at Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴达摩院）
For image inpainting, the convolutional neural networks (CNN) in previous methods often adopt standard convolutional operator, which treats valid pixels and holes indistinguishably. As a result, they are limited in handling irregular holes and tend to produce color-discrepant and blurry inpainting result. Partial convolution (PConv) copes with this issue by conducting masked convolution and feature re-normalization conditioned only on valid pixels, but the mask-updating is handcrafted and independent with image structural information. In this paper, we present an edge-guided learnable bidirect…
In this paper, we present a novel image inpainting technique using frequency domain information. Prior works on image inpainting predict the missing pixels by training neural networks using only the spatial domain information. However, these methods still struggle to reconstruct high-frequency details for real complex scenes, leading to a discrepancy in color, boundary artifacts, distorted patterns, and blurry textures. To alleviate these problems, we investigate if it is possible to obtain better performance by training the networks using frequency domain information (Discrete Fourier Transfo…
CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；UPMC Univ Paris 06（巴黎第六大学）；INRIA Paris（法国国家信息与自动化研究所巴黎分部）；University of Porto（波尔图大学）；Samara National Research University（萨马拉国立研究大学）；Université de Toulon USTV（土伦大学）；CentraleSupélec（巴黎中央理工-高等电力学院）；École Polytechnique（巴黎综合理工学院）
We present a new image inpainting algorithm, the Averaging and Hypoelliptic Evolution (AHE) algorithm, inspired by the one presented in [SIAM J. Imaging Sci., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 669--695, 2014] and based upon a semi-discrete variation of the Citti-Petitot-Sarti model of the primary visual cortex V1. The AHE algorithm is based on a suitable combination of sub-Riemannian hypoelliptic diffusion and ad-hoc local averaging techniques. In particular, we focus on reconstructing highly corrupted images (i.e. where more than the 80% of the image is missing), for which we obtain reconstructions comparab…
MGAN-CRCM: A Novel Multiple Generative Adversarial Network and Coarse-Refinement Based Cognizant Method for Image Inpainting
Bangladesh University of Professionals（孟加拉国专业大学）；Jahangirnagar University（贾汉吉尔纳加尔大学）；University of New South Wales (UNSW)（新南威尔士大学（UNSW））；Charles Sturt University（查尔斯特大学）
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)（基础科学研究所（IPM））；Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)（国际高等研究院（SISSA））；Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU)（宇宙基础物理研究所（IFPU））
In this work, we propose a new method to inpaint the CMB signal in regions masked out following a point source extraction process. We adopt a modified Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and compare different combinations of internal (hyper-)parameters and training strategies. We study the performance using a suitable $\mathcal{C}_r$ variable in order to estimate the performance regarding the CMB power spectrum recovery. We consider a test set where one point source is masked out in each sky patch with a 1.83 $\times$ 1.83 squared degree extension, which, in our gridding, corresponds to 64 $\…
Reconstructing the missing parts of a curve has been the subject of much computational research, with applications in image inpainting, object synthesis, etc. Different approaches for solving that problem are typically based on processes that seek visually pleasing or perceptually plausible completions. In this work we focus on reconstructing the underlying physically likely shape by utilizing the global statistics of natural curves. More specifically, we develop a reconstruction model that seeks the mean physical curve for a given inducer configuration. This simple model is both straightforwa…
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia（意大利理工学院）；Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）
We study the applicability of tools developed by the computer vision community for features learning and semantic image inpainting to perform data reconstruction of fluid turbulence configurations. The aim is twofold. First, we explore on a quantitative basis, the capability of Convolutional Neural Networks embedded in a Deep Generative Adversarial Model (Deep-GAN) to generate missing data in turbulence, a paradigmatic high dimensional chaotic system. In particular, we investigate their use in reconstructing two-dimensional damaged snapshots extracted from a large database of numerical configu…
An Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Training Clean Diffusion Models from Corrupted Observations
Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University（北京大学前沿交叉学科研究院）；College of Future Technology, Peking University（北京大学未来技术学院）；National Biomedical Imaging Center, Peking University（北京大学国家生物医学成像中心）；Yuanpei College, Peking University（北京大学元培学院）；State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, Peking University（北京大学多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室）
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH（德国人工智能研究中心（DFKI）有限公司）；Saarland University（萨尔大学）
Exemplar-based inpainting is the process of reconstructing missing parts of an image by searching the remaining data for patches that fit seamlessly. The image is completed to a plausible-looking solution by repeatedly inserting the patch that is the best match according to some cost function. We present an acceleration structure that uses a multi-index scheme to accelerate this search procedure drastically, particularly in the case of very large datasets. The index scheme uses ideas such as dimensionality reduction and k-nearest neighbor search on space-filling curves that are well known in t…
Chain of World: World Model Thinking in Latent Motion
Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Li Auto；Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)（北京人工智能研究院）；University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学）；Chongqing Research Institute of HIT（哈尔滨工业大学重庆研究院）；Peking University（北京大学）
Image inpainting is the task of filling masked or unknown regions of an image with visually realistic contents, which has been remarkably improved by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) recently. Essentially, as an inverse problem, the inpainting has the underlying challenges of reconstructing semantically coherent results without texture artifacts. Many previous efforts have been made via exploiting attention mechanisms and prior knowledge, such as edges and semantic segmentation. However, these works are still limited in practice by an avalanche of learnable prior parameters and prohibitive computat…
DeepDR: Deep Structure-Aware RGB-D Inpainting for Diminished Reality
Graz University of Technology（格拉茨工业大学）；University of Stuttgart（斯图加特大学）；University of Duisburg-Essen（杜伊斯堡-埃森大学）；Joanneum Research（约阿尼姆研究中心）；Flinders University（弗林德斯大学）
Geometric Constraints Enable Self-Supervised Sinogram Inpainting in Sparse-View Tomography
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg（埃尔朗根-纽伦堡弗里德里希-亚历山大大学）；Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS（弗劳恩霍夫陶瓷技术与系统研究所（IKTS））；Fraunhofer Development Center X-Ray Technology EZRT（弗劳恩霍夫X射线技术开发中心（EZRT））
The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.（上海联影智能医疗科技有限公司）；The University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）
In orthodontic treatment, a full tooth model consisting of both the crown and root is indispensable in making the treatment plan. However, acquiring tooth root information to obtain the full tooth model from CBCT images is sometimes restricted due to the massive radiation of CBCT scanning. Thus, reconstructing the full tooth shape from the ready-to-use input, e.g., the partial intra-oral scan and the 2D panoramic image, is an applicable and valuable solution. In this paper, we propose a neural network, called ToothInpaintor, that takes as input a partial 3D dental model and a 2D panoramic imag…
Separating an image into cartoon and texture components comes useful in image processing applications, such as image compression, image segmentation, image inpainting. Yves Meyer's influential cartoon texture decomposition model involves deriving an energy functional by choosing appropriate spaces and functionals. Minimizers of the derived energy functional are cartoon and texture components of an image. In this study, cartoon part of an image is separated, by reconstructing it from pixels of multi scale Total-Variation filtered versions of the original image which is sought to be decomposed i…
EasyHOI: Unleashing the Power of Large Models for Reconstructing Hand-Object Interactions in the Wild
The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；ShanghaiTech University（上海科技大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科学大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Max Planck Institute for Informatics（马克斯·普朗克研究所（信息学））；Texas A&M University（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）
University of California, Irvine（加州大学欧文分校）；Adobe Research（奥多比研究院）
Nonparametric based methods have recently shown promising results in reconstructing human bodies from monocular images while model-based methods can help correct these estimates and improve prediction. However, estimating model parameters from global image features may lead to noticeable misalignment between the estimated meshes and image evidence. To address this issue and leverage the best of both worlds, we propose a framework of three consecutive modules. A dense map prediction module explicitly establishes the dense UV correspondence between the image evidence and each part of the body mo…
PointDreamer: Zero-shot 3D Textured Mesh Reconstruction from Colored Point Cloud
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；School of Computer Science and Technology（计算机科学与技术学院）；Guangdong HUST Industrial Technology Research Institute（广东华中科技大学产业技术研究院）；School of Computer Science and Engineering（计算机科学与工程学院）；South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；Pazhou Laboratory（琶洲实验室）
