Image Inpainting with Modified F-Transform

Restoring damaged images is an important problem in image processing and has been studied for applications such as inpainting missing regions, art restoration. In this work, we consider a modified (fuzzy transform) F-transform for restoration of damages such as holes, scratches. By utilizing weights calculated from known image regions using local variance from patches, we modify the classical F-transform to handle the missing regions effectively with edge preservation and local smoothness. Comparison with interpolation - nearest neighbor, bilinear and modern inpainting - Navier - Stokes, fast-marching methods illustrate that by using our proposed modified F-transform we obtain better results.

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