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Chapter 1 PREAMBLE 1.1 Introduction Inpainting, the technique of modifying an image in an undetectable form, is as ancient as art itself. The goals and applications of inpainting are numerous, from the restoration of damaged paintings and photographs to the removal/replacement of selected objects. In our project, we introduce a novel algorithm for digital inpainting of still images that attempts to replicate the basic techniques used by professional restorators. After the user selects the regions to be restored, the algorithm automatically fills-in these regions with information surrounding them. The fill-in is done in such a way that isophote lines arriving at the region’s boundaries are completed inside. In contrast with previous approaches, the technique here introduced does not require the user to specify where the novel information comes from. This is automatically done (and in a fast way), thereby allowing to simultaneously fill-in numerous regions containing completely different structures and surrounding backgrounds. In addition, no limitations are imposed on the topology of the region to be inpainted. Applications of this technique include the restoration of old photographs and damaged film; removal of superimposed text like dates, subtitles, or publicity; and the removal of entire objects from the image like microphones or wires in special effects. In our project we presents a novel algorithm for removing objects from digital photographs and replacing them with visually plausible backgrounds. The algorithm effectively hallucinates new color values for the target region in a way that looks “reasonable” to the human eye. In previous work, several researchers have considered texture synthesis as a way to fill large image regions with “pure” textures – repetitive two-dimensional textural patterns with moderate stochasticity. This is based on a large body of texture-synthesis research, which seeks to replicate texture and infinitum, given a small source sample of pure texture. Of particular interest are exemplar-based techniques

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multiple textures interacting

spatially. The main problem is that boundaries between image regions are a complex product of mutual influences between different textures. In contrasts to the two dimensional nature of pure textures, these boundaries form what might be considered more one-dimensional, or linear, image structures. A number of algorithms specifically address this issue for the task of image restoration, where speckles, scratches, and overlaid text are removed .These image inpainting techniques fill holes in images by propagating linear structures (called isophotes in the inpainting literature) into the target region via diffusion. They are inspired by the partial differential equations of physical heat flow, and work convincingly as restoration algorithms. Their drawback is that the diffusion process introduces some blur, which is noticeable when the algorithm is applied to fill larger regions. The algorithm presented here combines the strengths of both approaches. As with inpainting, we pay special attention to linear structures. But, linear structures abutting the target region only influence the fill order of what is at core an exemplar-based texture synthesis algorithm. The result is an algorithm that has the efficiency and qualitative performance of exemplar-based texture synthesis, but which also respects the image constraints imposed by surrounding linear structures. Our algorithm builds on very recent research along similar lines. The output image is the sum of the two processed components. This approach still remains limited to the removal of small image gaps, however, as the diffusion process continues to blur the filled region. One of the first attempts to use exemplar-based synthesis specifically for object removal was by Harrison. There, the order in which a pixel in the target region is filled was dictated by the level of “texturedness” of the pixel’s neighborhood. Although the intuition is sound, strong linear structures were often overruled by nearby noise, minimizing the value of the extra computation. Finally, Zalesny et al. describe an interesting algorithm for the parallel synthesis of composite textures. They devise a special-purpose solution for the interface between two textures. Department of CS & E, PDIT, Hospet

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1.2 Problem Statement The problem of the work can be stated as “Object Removal by Exemplar-based Imprinting”. Through the work, a particular object can be entirely or partially removed from an image. Sometimes the image contains unnecessary data. Under such situation the objects can be first marked by an appropriate color and then the algorithm is applied. The algorithm references the original image and removes that specific object from the image. Exemplar-based methods are inspired by greedy image-based texture growing algorithms, and the global image completion approach that was recently proposed to solve quality problems in exemplar-based image completion. We overcome the problem of filling large areas with textures that surround the area and reconstruct the image. This technique is faster than the previous methods.

1.3 Hardware Requirement & Software Requirement Hardware Requirement I. P4 processor over 2.5 GHz II. Minimum 512MB RAM. III. Accelerated Graphics Card. IV. Minimum 8GB Hard Disk. V. Better performance with 32KB and above Cache Memory.

Software Requirement Matlab 7 Components: Windows Components needs to be updated by Service Packs (XP/NT/S2K service pack depending upon the system.

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1.4 ORGANISATION OF THE REST OF THE REPORT The rest of the project report is organized under the following topics: LITERATURE SURVEY section provides a brief description about the presently existing system and the new system we are developing in the project. IMAGE INPAINTING gives a description of what the user wants the system to do. ANALYSIS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION gives the process or art of defining the architecture and data for a system to satisfy specified requirements and the implementation. RESULTS Contains the results of the experiments. The images of the object and the CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ENHANCEMENT: The conclusion allows having the final say on the issues we have written in the report. The future enhancement gives a description of what is the future of the project we have developed. APPENDIX: Appendix refers to the reference or the bibliography of the project.

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Chapter 2 LITERATURE SURVEY 2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM In this survey, techniques developed in three distinct but related fields of study, variational image inpainting, texture synthesis and image completion, are investigated. Variational image inpainting involves Filling narrow gaps in images. Though there are challenging alternative methods, best results are obtained by PDE-based algorithms. Texture synthesis is reproduction of a texture from a sample. Firstly, statistical model based methods were proposed for texture synthesis. Then pixel and patch-based sampling techniques were developed, preserving texture structures better than statistical methods. Bertalmio et al pioneered a digital image inpainting algorithm based on the PDE and be the extension to the level lines based disocclusion method or the same basic idea, after the user select the region to be inpainted the two methods iteratively propagate information from the outside of the area along the level lines isophotes (lines of equal gray values), the difference lies in the goal of maintaining the angle of arrival. In order to maintain the angle of arrival, the direction of the largest spatial change is used. The direction may be obtained by computing a discretized gradient vector and rotating this vector by 90 radians. Instead of using geodesic curves to connect the isophotes, the prolongation lines are progressively curved while preventing the lines from intersecting each other. Disadvantages: 

Impainting method is slower for large areas to be filled.

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2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM A new algorithm is proposed for removing large objects from digital images. The challenge is to fill in the hole that is left behind in a visually plausible way. exemplarbased methods are inspired by greedy image-based texture growing algorithms, and the global image completion approach that was recently proposed to solve quality problems in exemplar-based image completion. We overcome the problem of filling large areas with textures that surround the area and reconstruct the image. This technique is faster than the previous methods.

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Chapter 3 Image Inpainting A digital image a[m,n] described in a 2D discrete space is derived from an analog image a(x,y) in a 2D continuous space through a sampling process that is frequently referred to as digitization. For now we will look at some basic definitions associated with the digital image. The 2D continuous image a(x,y) is divided into N rows and M columns. The intersection of a row and a column is termed a pixel. The value assigned to the integer coordinates [m,n] with {m=0,1,2,...,M-1} and {n=0,1,2,...,N-1} is a[m,n]. In fact, in most cases a(x,y) which we might consider to be the physical signal that impinges on the face of a 2D sensor is actually a function of many variables including depth (z), color ( ), and time (t). we will consider the case of 2D, monochromatic, static images .

Figure 3.1: Digitization of a continuous image. The pixel at coordinates [m=10, n=3] has the integer brightness value 110. The image shown in Figure 3.1 has been divided into N = 16 rows and M = 16 columns. The value assigned to every pixel is the average brightness in the pixel rounded to the nearest integer value. The process of representing the amplitude of the 2D signal at Department of CS & E, PDIT, Hospet

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3.1 Characteristics of Image Operations There is a variety of ways to classify and characterize image operations. The reason for doing so is to understand what type of results we might expect to achieve with a given type of operation or what might be the computational burden associated with a given operation.

3.1.1 Types of operations The types of operations that can be applied to digital images to transform an input image a[m,n] into an output image b[m,n] (or another representation) can be classified into three categories as shown in Table 2. Table 2: Types of image operations. Image size = N x N; neighborhood size = P x P. Note that the complexity is specified in operations per pixel. Operatio

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Figure 3.2: Illustration of various types of image operations

3.1.2 Types of neighborhoods Neighborhood operations play a key role in modern digital image processing. It is therefore important to understand how images can be sampled and how that relates to the various neighborhoods that can be used to process an image. •

Rectangular sampling - In most cases, images are sampled by laying a rectangular grid over an image as illustrated in Figure 1. This results in the type of sampling shown in Figure 4.2(a) and 4.2 (b).

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hexagonal sampling - An alternative sampling scheme is shown in Figure 4.2 (c) and is termed hexagonal sampling.

Both sampling schemes have been studied extensively and both represent a possible periodic tiling of the continuous image space. We will restrict our attention, however, to only rectangular sampling as it remains, due to hardware and software considerations, the method of choice. Local operations produce an output pixel value b[m=mo,n=no] based upon the pixel values in the neighborhood of a[m=mo,n=no]. Some of the most common neighborhoods are the 4-connected neighborhood and the 8-connected neighborhood in the case of rectangular sampling and the 6-connected neighborhood in the case of hexagonal sampling illustrated in Figure 3.

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Figure 4.2: Rectangular sampling Rectangular sampling hexagonal sampling 4-connected 8-connected 6-connected

3.2 Contour Representations When dealing with a region or object, several compact representations are available that can facilitate manipulation of and measurements on the object. In each case we assume that we begin with an image representation of the object as shown in Figure a,b. Several techniques exist to represent the region or object by describing its contour.

3.2.1 Chain code This representation is based upon the work of Freeman. We follow the contour in a clockwise manner and keep track of the directions as we go from one contour pixel to the next. For the standard implementation of the chain code we consider a contour pixel to be an object pixel that has a background (non-object) pixel as one or more of its 4connected neighbors. See Figures 3a and 8c. The codes associated with eight possible directions are the chain codes and, with x as the current contour pixel position, the codes are generally defined as:

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Figure 4.2.1 : Region (shaded) as it is transformed from (a) continuous to (b) discrete form and then considered as a (c) contour or (d) run lengths illustrated in alternating colors.

3.2.2 Chain code properties •

Even codes {0, 2, 4, 6} correspond to horizontal and vertical directions; odd codes {1, 3, 5, 7} correspond to the diagonal directions.

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The absolute coordinates [m, n] of the first contour pixel (e.g. top, leftmost) together with the chain code of the contour represent a complete description of the discrete region contour.

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3.2.3 Crack code An alternative to the chain code for contour encoding is to use neither the contour pixels associated with the object nor the contour pixels associated with background but rather the line, the "crack", in between. This is illustrated with an enlargement of a portion of Figure 8 in Figure 9. The "crack" code can be viewed as a chain code with four possible directions instead of eight.

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Figure 3.2.3: (a) Object including part to be studied. (b) Contour pixels as used in the chain code are diagonally shaded. The "crack" is shown with the thick black line. The chain code for the enlarged section of Figure 3.2.3b, from top to bottom, is {5,6,7,7,0}. The crack code is {3, 2, 3, 3, 0, 3, 0, 0}.

3.2.4 Run codes A third representation is based on coding the consecutive pixels along a row--a run--that belong to an object by giving the starting position of the run and the ending position of the run. Such runs are illustrated in Figure 8d. There are a number of alternatives for the precise definition of the positions. Which alternative should be used depends upon the application and thus will not be discussed here. Department of CS & E, PDIT, Hospet

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3.3 Tools Certain tools are central to the processing of digital images. These include mathematical tools such as convolution, Fourier analysis, and statistical descriptions, and manipulative tools such as chain codes and run codes

3.4 Convolution There are several possible notations to indicate the convolution of two (multidimensional) signals to produce an output signal. The most common are:

3.4.1 Properties of Convolution There are a number of important mathematical properties associated with convolution. •

Convolution is commutative.

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Convolution is associative.

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Convolution is distributive.

where a, b, c, and d are all images, either continuous or discrete.

3.4.2 Fourier Transforms The Fourier transform produces another representation of a signal, specifically a representation as a weighted sum of complex exponentials. Because of Euler's formula:

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Where

, we can say that the Fourier transform produces a representation of a

(2D) signal as a weighted sum of sines and cosines. The defining formulas for the forward Fourier and the inverse Fourier transforms are as follows. Given an image a and its Fourier transform A, then the forward transform goes from the spatial domain (either continuous or discrete) to the frequency domain which is always continuous. Forward A = F{ a} The inverse Fourier transform goes from the frequency domain back to the spatial domain. Inverse

a = F−1{ A}

The Fourier transform is a unique and invertible operation so that: a = F−1{ F{a}}

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3.4.3 Properties of Fourier Transforms There are a variety of properties associated with the Fourier transform and the inverse Fourier transform. The Fourier transform is, in general, a complex function of the real frequency variables. In words, convolution in the spatial domain is equivalent to multiplication in the Fourier (frequency) domain and vice-versa. This is a central result which provides not only a methodology for the implementation of a convolution but also insight into how two signals interact with each other--under convolution--to produce a third signal.

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3.5 Importance of phase and magnitude Equation indicates that the Fourier transform of an image can be complex. This is illustrated below in Figures 4a-c. Figure 4a shows the original image a[m,n], Figure 4b the magnitude in a scaled form as log(|A (Ω, Ψ|), and Figure 4c the phase φ (Ω, Ψ).

Figure 4a Figure 4b Figure 4c Original log(|A(Ω, Ψ)|) φ (Ω, Ψ) Both the magnitude and the phase functions are necessary for the complete reconstruction of an image from its Fourier transform. Figure 5a shows what happens when Figure 4a is restored solely on the basis of the magnitude information and Figure 5b shows what happens when Figure 4a is restored solely on the basis of the phase information.

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3.5.1 Circularly symmetric signals An arbitrary 2D signal a(x,y) can always be written in a polar coordinate system as a(r, ). When the 2D signal exhibits a circular symmetry this means that:

where r2 = x2 + y2 and tan

= y/x. As a number of physical systems such as lenses

exhibit circular symmetry, it is useful to be able to compute an appropriate Fourier representation.

3.5.2 Statistics In image processing it is quite common to use simple statistical descriptions of images and sub-images. The notion of a statistic is intimately connected to the concept of a probability distribution, generally the distribution of signal amplitudes. For a given region which could conceivably be an entire image we can define the probability distribution function of the brightnesses in that region and the probability density function of the brightnesses in that region. We will assume in the discussion that follows that we are dealing with a digitized image a[m,n].

3.6 Probability distribution function of the brightnesses The probability distribution function, P(a), is the probability that a brightness chosen from the region is less than or equal to a given brightness value a. As a increases from -

to + , P(a) increases from 0 to 1. P(a) is monotonic, non-decreasing in a and

thus dP/da >= 0.

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The brightness probability distribution function for the image shown in Figure 4a is shown in Figure 6a. The (unnormalized) brightness histogram of Figure 4a which is proportional to the estimated brightness probability density function is shown in Figure 6b. The height in this histogram corresponds to the number of pixels with a given brightness.

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3.6.2 Average The average brightness of a region is defined as the sample mean of the pixel brightnesses within that region.

3.6.3 Mode The mode of the distribution is the most frequent brightness value. There is no guarantee that a mode exists or that it is unique.

3.6.4 Perception Many image processing applications are intended to produce images that are to be viewed by human observers (as opposed to, say, automated industrial inspection.) It is therefore important to understand the characteristics and limitations of the human visual system--to understand the "receiver" of the 2D signals. At the outset it is important to realize that 1) the human visual system is not well understood, 2) no objective measure exists for judging the quality of an image that corresponds to human assessment of image quality, and, 3) the "typical" human observer does not exist. Nevertheless, research in perceptual psychology has provided some important insights into the visual system. See, for example, Stockham .

3.6.5 Brightness Sensitivity There are several ways to describe the sensitivity of the human visual system. To begin, let us assume that a homogeneous region in an image has an intensity as a function of wavelength (color) given by I(λ). Further let us assume that I(λ) = Io, a constant.

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3.6.5.1 Wavelength sensitivity The perceived intensity as a function of λ, the spectral sensitivity, for the "typical observer" is shown in Figure 10 .

Figure 10: Spectral Sensitivity of the "typical" human observer

3.6.5.2 Stimulus sensitivity If the constant intensity (brightness) Io is allowed to vary then, to a good approximation, the visual response, R, is proportional to the logarithm of the intensity. This is known as the Weber-Fechner law:

The implications of this are easy to illustrate. Equal perceived steps in brightness, R = k, require that the physical brightness (the stimulus) increases exponentially. This is illustrated in Figure 11ab. A horizontal line through the top portion of Figure 11a shows a linear increase in objective brightness (Figure 11b) but a logarithmic increase in subjective brightness. A horizontal line through the bottom portion of Figure 11a shows an exponential increase in objective brightness (Figure 11b) but a linear increase in subjective brightness.

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Figure :Brightness step I = k Actual brightnesses plus interpolated values (bottom) Brightness step I = k*I The Mach band effect is visible in Figure 11a. Although the physical brightness is constant across each vertical stripe, the human observer perceives an "undershoot" and "overshoot" in brightness at what is physically a step edge. Thus, just before the step, we see a slight decrease in brightness compared to the true physical value. After the step we see a slight overshoot in brightness compared to the true physical value. The total effect is one of increased, local, perceived contrast at a step edge in brightness.

3.6.5.3 Spatial Frequency Sensitivity If the constant intensity (brightness) Io is replaced by a sinusoidal grating with increasing spatial frequency (Figure 4.6.5.3 a), it is possible to determine the spatial frequency sensitivity. The result is shown in Figure 4.6.5.3 b .

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Figure 4.6.5.3 Sinusoidal test grating Spatial frequency sensitivity To translate these data into common terms, consider an "ideal" computer monitor at a viewing distance of 50 cm. The spatial frequency that will give maximum response is at 10 cycles per degree. (See Figure 4.6.5.3 b.) The one degree at 50 cm translates to 50 tan(1deg.) = 0.87 cm on the computer screen. Thus the spatial frequency of maximum response fmax = 10 cycles/0.87 cm = 11.46 cycles/cm at this viewing distance

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3.7 Optical Illusions The description of the human visual system presented above is couched in standard engineering terms. This could lead one to conclude that there is sufficient knowledge of the human visual system to permit modeling the visual system with standard system analysis techniques. Two simple examples of optical illusions, shown in Figure 15, illustrate that this system approach would be a gross oversimplification. Such models should only be used with extreme care.

Figure 15: Optical Illusions The left illusion induces the illusion of gray values in the eye that the brain "knows" does not exist. Further, there is a sense of dynamic change in the image due, in part, to the saccadic movements of the eye. The right illusion, Kanizsa's triangle, shows enhanced contrast and false contours neither of which can be explained by the systemoriented aspects of visual perception described above.

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3.8 Noise Images acquired through modern sensors may be contaminated by a variety of noise sources. By noise we refer to stochastic variations as opposed to deterministic distortions such as shading or lack of focus. We will assume for this section that we are dealing with images formed from light using modern electro-optics. In particular we will assume the use of modern, charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras where photons produce electrons that are commonly referred to as photoelectrons. Nevertheless, most of the observations we shall make about noise and its various sources hold equally well for other imaging modalities. While modern technology has made it possible to reduce the noise levels associated with various electro-optical devices to almost negligible levels, one noise source can never be eliminated and thus forms the limiting case when all other noise sources are "eliminated".

3.8.1 Photon Noise When the physical signal that we observe is based upon light, then the quantum nature of light plays a significant role. A single photon at = 500 nm carries an energy of E = h = hc/ = 3.97 x 10-19 Joules. Modern CCD cameras are sensitive enough to be able to count individual photons. The noise problem arises from the fundamentally statistical nature of photon production. We cannot assume that, in a given pixel for two consecutive but independent observation intervals of length T, the same number of photons will be counted. Photon production is governed by the laws of quantum physics which restrict us to talking about an average number of photons within a given observation window. The probability distribution for p photons in an observation window of length T seconds is known to be Poisson:

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where is the rate or intensity parameter measured in photons per second. It is critical to understand that even if there were no other noise sources in the imaging chain, the statistical fluctuations associated with photon counting over a finite time interval T would still lead to a finite signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). If we use the appropriate formula for the SNR , then due to the fact that the average value and the standard deviation are given by:

Poisson process we have for the SNR: Photon noise The three traditional assumptions about the relationship between signal and noise do not hold for photon noise: •

Photon noise is not independent of the signal;

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photon statistics can be ignored if the sensor has a sufficiently high saturation level.

3.8.2 Thermal Noise An additional, stochastic source of electrons in a CCD well is thermal energy. Electrons can be freed from the CCD material itself through thermal vibration and then, trapped in the CCD well, be indistinguishable from "true" photoelectrons. By cooling the CCD chip it is possible to reduce significantly the number of "thermal electrons" that

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3.8.3 On-chip Electronic Noise This noise originates in the process of reading the signal from the sensor, in this case through the field effect transistor (FET) of a CCD chip. Readout noise can be reduced to manageable levels by appropriate readout rates and proper electronics. At very low signal levels however,readout noise can still become a significant component in the overall SNR .

3.8.4 KTC Noise Noise associated with the gate capacitor of an FET is termed KTC noise and can be non-negligible

. This value is a "one time" noise per pixel that

occurs during signal readout and is thus independent of the integration time . Proper electronic design that makes use, for example, of correlated double sampling and dualslope integration can almost completely eliminate KTC noise .

3.8.5 Noise Removal from Images Imagine an image with noise. For example, the image on the left below is a corrupted binary (black and white) image of some letters; 60% of the pixels are thrown

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Figure 4.8.5 Noise removal (a)A "noisy" image (b)Smoothed (c)Continued smoothing One goal in image restoration is to remove the noise from the image in such a way that the "original" image is discernible. Of course, "noise" is in the eye of the beholder; removing the "noise" from a Jackson Pollack painting would considerably reduce its value. Nonetheless, one approach is to decide that features that exist on a very small scale in the image are noise, and that removing these while maintaining larger features might help "clean things up". One well-traveled approach is to smooth the image. The simplest such version is replace each pixel it by the average of the neighboring pixel values. If we do this a few times we get the image in the middle above; if we do it many times, we get the image on the right. On the plus side, much of the spotty noise has been muted out. On the downside, the sharp boundaries that make up the letters have been smeared due to the averaging. While many more sophisticated approaches exist, the goal is the same: to remove the noise, and keep the real image sharp. The trick is to not do too much, and to "know when to stop".

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3.9 Texture Analysis In many machine vision and image processing algorithms, simplifying assumptions are made about the uniformity of intensities in local image regions. However, images of real objects often do not exhibit regions of uniform intensities. For example, the image of a wooden surface is not uniform but contains variations of intensities which form certain repeated patterns called visual texture. The patterns can be the result of physical surface properties such as roughness or oriented strands which often have a tactile quality, or they could be the result of reflectance differences such as the color on a surface. Image texture, defined as a function of the spatial variation in pixel intensities (gray values), is useful in a variety of applications and has been a subject of intense study by many researchers. One immediate application of image texture is the recognition of image regions using texture properties. Texture is the most important visual cue in identifying these types of homogeneous regions. This is called texture classification. The goal of texture classification then is to produce a classification map of the input image where each uniform textured region is identified with the texture class it belongs to. The texture features (texture elements) are distorted due to the imaging process and the perspective projection, which provide information about surface orientation and shape. Texture analysis is important in many applications of computer image analysis for classification or segmentation of images based on local spatial variations of intensity or color. A successful classification or segmentation requires an efficient description of image texture. Important applications include industrial and biomedical surface Department of CS & E, PDIT, Hospet

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Image Inpainting inspection, for example for defects and disease, ground classification and segmentation of satellite or aerial imagery, segmentation of textured regions in document analysis, and content-based access to image databases.. A major problem is that textures in the real world are often not uniform, due to changes in orientation, scale or other visual appearance. In addition, the degree of computational complexity of many of the proposed texture measures is very high. Texture classification process involves two phases: the learning phase and the recognition phase. In the learning phase, the target is to build a model for the texture content of each texture class present in the training data, which generally comprises of images with known class labels. The texture content of the training images is captured with the chosen texture analysis method, which yields a set of textural features for each image. These features, which can be scalar numbers or discrete histograms or empirical distributions, characterize given textural properties of the images, such as spatial structure, contrast, roughness, orientation, etc. In the recognition phase the texture content of the unknown sample is first described with the same texture analysis method. Then the textural features of the sample are compared to those of the training images with a classification algorithm, and the sample is assigned to the category with the best match. Statistical methods analyze the spatial distribution of gray values, by computing local features at each point in the image, and deriving a set of statistics from the distributions of the local features. Depending on the number of pixels defining the local feature statistical methods can be further classified into first-order (one pixel), secondorder (two pixels) and higher-order (three or more pixels) statistics. The basic difference is that first-order statistics estimate properties (e.g. average and variance) of individual pixel values, ignoring the spatial interaction between image pixels, whereas second- and higher-order statistics estimate properties of two or more pixel values occurring at specific locations relative to each other. The most widely used statistical methods are concurrence features and gray level differences, which have inspired a variety of modifications. Properties of the primitives (e.g. area and average intensity) were used as texture intensity distribution. The intensity function is considered

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3.10 Image Inpainting A new algorithm is proposed for removing large objects from digital images. The challenge is to fill in the hole that is left behind in a visually plausible way. In the past, this problem has been addressed by two classes of algorithms: (1) “Texture Synthesis” algorithms for generating large image regions from sample textures, (2) “Inpainting” techniques for filling in small image gaps. The former has been demonstrated for “textures” – repeating two-dimensional patterns with some stochasticity, the latter focus on linear “structures” which can be thought of as one-dimensional patterns, such as lines and object contours. The algorithm that we use here is a novel and efficient algorithm that combines the advantages of these two approaches. We first note that exemplar-based texture synthesis contains the essential process required to replicate both texture and structure the success of structure propagation, however, is highly dependent on the order in which the filling proceeds. We propose a best-first algorithm in which the confidence in the synthesized pixel values is propagated in a manner similar to the propagation of information in inpainting. The actual colour values are computed using exemplar-based synthesis. In this paper the simultaneous propagation of texture and structure information is achieved by a single, efficient algorithm. Computational efficiency is achieved by a block-based sampling process. A number of examples on real and synthetic images demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm in removing large occluding objects as well as thin

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scratches. The algorithm effectively hallucinates new colour values for the target region in a way that looks “reasonable” to the human eye. Of particular interest are exemplarbased techniques which cheaply and effectively generate new texture by sampling and copying colour values from the source. As effective as these techniques are in replicating consistent texture, they have difficulty filling holes in photographs of real-world scenes, which often consist of linear structures and composite textures multiple textures interacting spatially. The main problem is that boundaries between image regions are a complex product of mutual influences between different textures. These image inpainting techniques fill holes in images by propagating linear structures (called isophotes in the inpainting literature) into the target region via diffusion. They are inspired by the partial differential equations of physical heat flow, and work convincingly as restoration algorithms. Their drawback is that the diffusion process introduces some blur, which becomes noticeable when filling larger regions. The technique presented here combines the strengths of both approaches into a single, efficient algorithm. As with inpainting, we pay special attention to linear structures. But, linear structures abutting the target region only influence the fill order of what is at core

3.10.1 Exemplar-based synthesis The core of the algorithm is an isophote-driven image-sampling process. It is well understood that exemplar-based approaches perform well for two-dimensional textures But, we note in addition that exemplar-based texture synthesis is sufficient for propagating extended linear image structures, as well; i.e., a separate synthesis mechanism is not required for handling isophotes. Figure 5.1 illustrates this point. For ease of comparison, we adopt notation similar to that used in the inpainting literature. The region to be filled, i.e.,the target region is indicated by Ω, and its contour is denoted δΩ. The contour evolves inward as the algorithm progresses, and so we also refer to it as the “fill front”. The source region, Φ, Department of CS & E, PDIT, Hospet

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Ω centred at the point p (fig. 5.1 b), is to be filled. The best-match sample

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Figure 3.10.1: Structure propagation by exemplar-based texture synthesis All that is required to propagate the isophote inwards is a simple transfer of the pattern from the best-match source patch (fig. 2d). Notice that isophote orientation is automatically preserved. In the figure, despite the fact that the original edge is not orthogonal to the target contour δΩ, the propagated structure has maintained the same orientation as in the source region. We focus on a patch-based filling approach this

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Image Inpainting improves execution speed. Furthermore, we note that patch-based filling improves the accuracy of the propagated structures. In the figure 3.10.1 (a) Original image, with the target region Ω, its contour δΩ, and the source region Φ clearly marked. (b)We want to synthesize the area delimited by the patch Ψp centered on the point p ∈ δΩ. (c)The most likely candidate matches for Ψp lie along the boundary between the two textures in the sourceregion, e.g., Ψq and Ψq. (d) The best matching patch in the candidates set has been copied into the position occupied by Ψp, thus achieving partial filling of Ω. Notice that both texture and structure (the separating line) have been propagated inside the target region. The target region Ω has, now, shrank and its front δΩ has assumed a different shape.

5.2 Filling order is critical The previous section has shown how careful exemplar-based .lling may be capable of propagating both texture and structure information. This section demonstrates that the quality of the output image synthesis is highly in.uenced by the order in which the .lling process.

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Figure 3.10.2: The importance of the Flling order when dealing with concave target regions.

proceeds. Furthermore, we list a number of desired properties of the “ideal” .lling algorithm. A comparison between the standard concentric layer .lling (onion-peel) and the desired .lling behaviour is illustrated in .g. 3. Figures 3b,c,d show the progressive .lling of a concave target region via an anti-clockwise onion-peel strategy. As it can be observed, this ordering of the .lled patches produces the horizontal boundary between the background image regions to be unexpectedly reconstructed as a curve. A better .lling algorithm would be one that gives higher priority of synthesis to those regions of the target area which lie on the continuation of image structures, as shown in .gs. 3b’,c’,d’. Together with the property of correct propagation of linear structures, the

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Chapter 4 System Analysis Design and Implementation 4.1Fundamentals Let Ω stand for the region to be inpainted, and ∂Ω for its boundary (note once again that no assumption on the topology of Ω is made). Intuitively, the technique we propose will prolong the isophote lines arriving at ∂Ω , while maintaining the angle of “arrival.” We proceed drawing from ∂Ω inward in this way, while curving the prolongation lines progressively to prevent them from crossing each other. Before presenting the detailed description of this technique, let us analyze how experts inpaint. Conservators at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts were consulted for this work and made it clear to us that inpainting is a very subjective procedure, different for each work of art and for each professional. There is no such thing as “the” way to solve the problem, but the underlying methodology is as follows: (1.)The global picture determines how to fill in the gap, the purpose of inpainting being to restore the unity of the work; (2). The structure of the area surrounding

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4.2 The inpainting algorithm The primary goal here is to shrink the information from the neighbor to the background that is occluded by a stationary or moving object. We first assign confidence values to each pixel in every frame. The confidence of pixels which are deemed to belong to the moving foreground or to the damaged area is set to zero. The rest of the pixels are initialized to a confidence value of one. The process of background filling is completed in two steps: •

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Computing Confidence and Filling-In Priority During the temporal filling-in step, priority of filling-in the 3-D hole is computed. The confidence term C (p), where p is the pixel under consideration, is initialized to zero if p is moving or is damaged and C (p) is initialized to one otherwise. The second relevant term is called the data-term D (p), and its value is based on the availability of temporal information at location p. The data term is computed as follows:

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P( p ) = C ( p ) × D( p ) This priority determines the damaged frame and pixel location which we need to first fill-in with background information. We then copy temporal information patches having the highest confidence value from the temporally nearest frame to the location p. Since we are filling-in temporally, and the camera remains fixed, we do not need to perform an explicit search. Such confidence based nearest neighbor copying is better than copying directly from a median image, the median may not contain all the information available in the temporal neighborhood. Once we copy a patch to the highest priority location p, the confidence at all previously damaged pixels in 'p is updated.

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4.3 MATLAB 4.3.1 Introduction to Matlab In the 1960s and 1970s before the appearance of personal computers, complex and large scale calculations were done on large mainframes using code primarily developed with FORTRAN. As a number of related large subroutines were developed for specific computational purposes, they were organized into public domain packages and distributed for free. Matlab was originally created as a front end for one of these, the LINPACK package -- a group of routines for working with matrices and linear algebra. The primary developer, Professor Cleve Moler at the University of New Mexico, eventually founded Mathworks, Inc., to further develop and market the product in a commercial setting. From the original Matlab, a high powered suite of applications has evolved. The current generation release, the MatlabR2006b suite, features the newest kernel, Matlab 7.3. It is largely backward compatible with recent Matlab versions, but there may be some slight changes.

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4.3.2 The Current Directory Window The Current Directory window displays a current directory with a listing of its contents. There is navigation capability for resetting the current directory to any directory among those set in the path. This window is useful for finding the location of particular files and scripts so that they can be edited, moved, renamed, deleted, etc. The default current directory is the Work subdirectory of the original Matlab installation directory.

4.3.3 The Workspace Window The Workspace window provides an inventory of all the items in the workspace that are currently defined, either by assignment or calculation, in the Command window or by importation with a load or similar command from the Matlab command line prompt. These items consist of the set of arrays (including 1x1 scalars) whose elements are variables or constants and which have been constructed or loaded during the current Matlab session and have remained stored in memory.

4.3.4 The Command History Window The Command History window, at the lower left in the default desktop, contains a log of commands that have been executed within the Command window. This is a convenient feature for tracking when developing or debugging programs or to confirm that commands were executed in a particular sequence during a multi-step calculation from the command line.

4.3.5 The Command Window The Command window is where the command line prompt for interactive commands is located. This is also the only window that appears if you execute the UNIX version of Matlab outside of an X environment, e.g., on a vt100 screen. Commands and scripts can be executed from a vt100 window, but graphics and desktop tools will not be available. The Matlab prompt on the command window consists of two adjacent right angle brackets, i.e., >>. Results of command operations will also be displayed in this Department of CS & E, PDIT, Hospet

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4.3.6 The Help Window Separate from the main desktop layout is a Help desktop with its own layout. This utility can be launched by selecting Help ->MATLAB Help from the Help pull down menu. This Help desktop has a right side which contains links to help with functions, help with graphics, and tutorial type documentation. The left side has various tabs that can be brought to the foreground for navigating by table of contents, by indexed keywords, or by a search on a particular string.

4.4 Principal Components of Impaiting In essence, image inpainting is quite different from denoising or image enhancement. Unlike common image enhancement applications, in which pixels contain both information about the real data and the noise, in image inpainting, the only information available for reconstruction is the average value of the erased block. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new techniques to address these problems. With regard to image inpainting, there used to be mainly three types of methods. The first deals with the restoration of films. The second is related to structure and texture filling in missing image blocks, and the last is related to disocclusion. The algorithm is based on solving partial differential equations (PDE) similar to that of diffusion using pixel value gradient of neighboring blocks.

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4.4.1 Block Classification Image Inpainting region is divided into blocks. We first check whether each block is recoverable using either texture or structure inpainting. Then, the blocks to be removed and appropriate algorithm for their later reconstruction are selected based on the analysis of the first step. For decision, the relationship with surrounding eight blocks is critical because the neighboring blocks provide the information needed for reconstruction of a missing block. Texture inpainting successfully reconstructs a missing block when surrounding blocks have similar statistical characteristics. Such similarity is briefly checked with mean and variance of each of neighboring blocks. If the mean and variance are similar to surrounding blocks, then the block in the middle is recoverable with texture inpainting. In contrast to texture inpainting, which has a limited application for filling in missing region, structure inpainting successfully reconstructs image in general. We can apply structure inpainting if a block falls into one of the two cases: 1) when a block does not contain ’strong edges’, and 2) when it is not composed of fine repetitive patterns. Sharp (strong) edges are critical when human recognize the shape of an object. Structure inpainting blurs the sharp edges because the algorithm is based on diffusion equations. Also, fine details are not recoverable because the diffusion equation continuously connects the missing region with surrounding region.

4.4.2 Removing Blocks Our goal is to remove as much blocks as possible and still recover the image with little perceptual difference. Based on the classification of part A, we designed an algorithm to automatically find suitable masks using following general rules: •

For blocks recoverable using texture inpainting, remove alternative blocks

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Remove alternative blocks along an weak edge since we need neighboring

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Figure: an example of mask on pepper (Black: texture, gray: structure with edge, white: flat structure)

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4.4.3. Texture Inpainting We classify blocks whose statistical properties are similar to those of surrounding blocks into texture. So, when we want to fill the texture block, we exploit the statistical similarity with other blocks. (Out texture synthesis algorithm is not much different from the previous work.) Briefly speaking, texture inpainting is to find best match from referable surrounding blocks in statistical aspect. In detail, texture synthesis process is like below. At first, when we call texture synthesis function, we give referable neighborhood block information. Secondly, we set the template which is 3x3 or 4x4 and next to the missed pixel we want to fill. We use this template as the best match criteria. Using MMSE algorithm, we find the best match among referable neighborhood blocks, and then, copy the pixel next to the missed pixel. Filling order is from up to down and from left to right. Finally, to make same DC value as before, we normalized the pixel values of the filled texture block. This texture synthesis method is similar to that of the previous works. So, there is another method, we used. In big picture(512x512), 8x8 block is not a big portion. And, in smooth area, we don’t use texture synthesis because of PSNR quality, even though texture synthesis is faster than structure inpainting. In most cases, we use texture synthesis in very coarse area or pattern area. From those reasons, we copy the whole block(8x8) to the missed texture block, after finding the block which has the closest mean and variance to missed texture block. In this case, we can get a good result in visual aspect, despite of almost same result in PSNR.

4.4.4. Structure Inpainting Structure is the region that can be clearly divided into two or more sectors through clear edges. Each sector is relatively devoid of minute details and the missing block within the sector is easily predicted from surrounding blocks. To state simply, structure inpainting is the process of gradually propagating the information contained in the surrounding blocks into the missing block.

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4.7 Implementation We implemented the entire algorithm from the paper. A pseudo-code description of the algorithm (from the paper) follows. Let R represent the region to be filled, I the entire image, S=I-R the source region from which candidate exemplars are chosen, P(p) the priority of a pixel, C(p) the confidence term for pixel p, D(p) the data term for pixel p, and t the iteration: •

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Results A synthetic image, I created a 213x284 synthetic image for testing and sanity checking. My implementation took 25 seconds to inpaint this image. It correctly painted in the missing parts of the synthetic image. The interesting thing to note about this example is the presence of the red dots in the data term; they lie along the hard edge between the black and gray regions. Because of the presence of such a strong edge, the pixels along the edge get a high priority; therefore, those patches get filled C++.

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Chapter 6 Conclusion and future work 6.1 Conclusion Inpainting the technique of modifying image in an undetectable form the technique finds in application like restoration of old photographs , damaged films , removal of superimposed text like dates subtitles or publicity and removal of entire object from the image. The exampler based method an inspiration by greedy image based texture growing algorithm and the global image completion method was recently proposed for image inpainting, which we used as a problem for our project. We implemented the technique in matlab as an input the file was taken. The filling of an image is done by green color then the algorithm is run to obtain the results that are discussed in results section . it can be observed that the algorithm is Department of CS & E, PDIT, Hospet

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