Image In painting Applied to Art Completing Escher's Print Gallery

TL;DR

This paper explores an in-painting technique tailored for art reconstruction, using Escher's Print Gallery as a case study to address complex geometric and artistic restoration challenges.

Contribution

It introduces a novel in-painting approach specifically designed for art, demonstrating its application on Escher's mathematically intricate Print Gallery lithograph.

Findings

Initial in-painting results on Escher's artwork

Identification of challenges in preserving geometric structures

Future research directions outlined

Abstract

This extended abstract presents the first stages of a research on in-painting suited for art reconstruction. We introduce M.C Eschers Print Gallery lithography as a use case example. This artwork presents a void on its center and additionally, it follows a challenging mathematical structure that needs to be preserved by the in-painting method. We present our work so far and our future line of research.