Title
Foreground-Aware Image Inpainting
Abstract
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. Specifically, our model learns to predict the foreground contour first, and then inpaints the missing region using the predicted contour as guidance. We show that by such disentanglement, the contour completion model predicts reasonable contours of objects, and further substantially improves the performance of image inpainting. Experiments show that our method significantly outperforms existing methods and achieves superior inpainting results on challenging cases with complex compositions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00599
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1901.05945
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.55
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Xiong11034.99
Jiahui Yu226025.83
Zhe Lin33100134.26
Jimei Yang4108340.68
Xin Lu558627.15
Connelly Barnes6172959.07
Jiebo Luo76314374.00