A Joint-Diffused Inpainting Model for Underexposure Image Preserving the Linear Geometric Structure
Volume 20, Issue 1 (2009), pp. 151–163
Pub. online: 1 January 2009
Type: Research Article
Received
1 December 2007
1 December 2007
Accepted
1 April 2008
1 April 2008
Published
1 January 2009
1 January 2009
Abstract
To restore the underexposure image, an illumination compensation inpainting model which employs the joint-diffused partial differential equations (PDEs) is proposed. Firstly, the novel model compensates the illumination effect in multi-scaled underexposure images respectively. Secondly, the information in the fused compensated image is restored by PDEs which diffuse the geometric property and gray information into the target region simultaneously. Experimental results demonstrate that the novel model can properly restore scratches while compensating the illumination effect in underexposure image, and the joint-diffused PDEs which are employed in it lead to a better performance than the conventional PDE inpainting models.