Adaptive Image Inpainting
Maitreya Suin, Kuldeep Purohit, A. N. Rajagopalan

TL;DR
This paper introduces an adaptive, distillation-based image inpainting method that enhances encoder feature learning, leading to more faithful and structurally consistent inpainted images, with extensive validation on multiple datasets.
Contribution
The paper proposes a novel distillation approach for encoder supervision in image inpainting, improving structure preservation and reducing computational overhead compared to existing methods.
Findings
Improved structural consistency in inpainted images.
Reduced computational complexity relative to multi-network approaches.
Validated effectiveness across multiple datasets.
Abstract
Image inpainting methods have shown significant improvements by using deep neural networks recently. However, many of these techniques often create distorted structures or blurry textures inconsistent with surrounding areas. The problem is rooted in the encoder layers' ineffectiveness in building a complete and faithful embedding of the missing regions. To address this problem, two-stage approaches deploy two separate networks for a coarse and fine estimate of the inpainted image. Some approaches utilize handcrafted features like edges or contours to guide the reconstruction process. These methods suffer from huge computational overheads owing to multiple generator networks, limited ability of handcrafted features, and sub-optimal utilization of the information present in the ground truth. Motivated by these observations, we propose a distillation based approach for inpainting, where we…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis · Advanced Image Processing Techniques · Advanced Vision and Imaging
MethodsInpainting
