Image inpainting based on directional Gaussian graph model using multi-head reference

Abstract

This paper aims to repair missing regions which are corrupted along arbitrary directions. It presents a mixed image inpainting method based on Markov random field. By using Belief Propagation scheme in low gray-levels and alternately suggesting a directional Gaussian Graphical model (DGGM) for multiple references in a high-level range, it gains a balance between the model accuracy and the computation complexity in realization. On the basis of an existing method in [1], it improves the method in high level inpainting for the task under small train sets and large corrupted regions, by introducing these multi-head reference clues. Experimental results are given, the inpainting quality of different kinds of images with different sizes and contents under different parameter settings are compared in metrics of the peak signal noise ratio and the structural similarity index. The significance of parameter settings and the efficient computational cost could demonstrate the feasibility of this method.