Exemplar based inpainting in a multi-scaled space

A novel exemplar based inpainting approach running on multi-scaled space is presented. The presented approach focuses on designing a novel processing architecture that works on a multi-resolution hierarchy. An inpainting process is designed to run recursively on the Laplacian image pyramid from coarse to fine level. Through the recursive process running on the image pyramid, both of structural features and texture informations near the target regions are permeated in the restored region. It reduces the artifact effects caused by exhaustive patch searching of conventional methods which work on a single layer. More plausible inpainting results and improvement on the processing speed are achieved when the presented method is applied in the experiments.