Fully Context-Aware Image Inpainting with a Learned Semantic Pyramid

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04107v2
• Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 10:07:34 GMT
• Title: Fully Context-Aware Image Inpainting with a Learned Semantic Pyramid
• Authors: Wendong Zhang, Yunbo Wang, Bingbing Ni, Xiaokang Yang
• Abstract summary: Restoring reasonable and realistic content for arbitrary missing regions in images is an important yet challenging task. Recent image inpainting models have made significant progress in generating vivid visual details, but they can still lead to texture blurring or structural distortions. We propose the Semantic Pyramid Network (SPN) motivated by the idea that learning multi-scale semantic priors can greatly benefit the recovery of locally missing content in images.
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• Abstract: Restoring reasonable and realistic content for arbitrary missing regions in images is an important yet challenging task. Although recent image inpainting models have made significant progress in generating vivid visual details, they can still lead to texture blurring or structural distortions due to contextual ambiguity when dealing with more complex scenes. To address this issue, we propose the Semantic Pyramid Network (SPN) motivated by the idea that learning multi-scale semantic priors from specific pretext tasks can greatly benefit the recovery of locally missing content in images. SPN consists of two components. First, it distills semantic priors from a pretext model into a multi-scale feature pyramid, achieving a consistent understanding of the global context and local structures. Within the prior learner, we present an optional module for variational inference to realize probabilistic image inpainting driven by various learned priors. The second component of SPN is a fully context-aware image generator, which adaptively and progressively refines low-level visual representations at multiple scales with the (stochastic) prior pyramid. We train the prior learner and the image generator as a unified model without any post-processing. Our approach achieves the state of the art on multiple datasets, including Places2, Paris StreetView, CelebA, and CelebA-HQ, under both deterministic and probabilistic inpainting setups.

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