Image inpainting via isophotes propagation

The inpainting is a process that restore or repair a damaged or corrupted part of the image or video in undetectable form. This technique has a wide range of applications, such as removing scratches in old photographic image, removing text and logos or creating cartoon and artistic effects. In this paper, we propose a new approach for image inpainting based on non linear diffusion tensor. The idea is to track perfectly the local geometry of the damaged image and allowing diffusion only in the isophote curves direction. To illustrate the effective performance of our model, we present some experimental results on a test and real photographic color images.

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