Get Out of my Picture! Internet-based Inpainting

Oliver Whyte, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman
2009 Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2009  
We present a method to replace a user specified target region of a photograph by using other photographs of the same scene downloaded from the Internet via viewpoint invariant image search. Each of the retrieved images is first geometrically then photometrically registered with the query photograph. Geometric registration is achieved using multiple homographies and photometric registration is performed using a global affine transformation on image intensities. Each retrieved image proposes a
more » ... sible solution for the target region. In the final step we combine these proposals into a single visually consistent result, using a Markov random field optimisation to choose seams between proposals, followed by gradient domain fusion. We demonstrate removal of objects and people in challenging photographs of Oxford landmarks containing complex image structures.
doi:10.5244/c.23.116 dblp:conf/bmvc/WhyteSZ09 fatcat:5m4hl7hjxfa4tfb4o3c4kfxhsy