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README: Inpainting based PatchMatch
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@Author: Younesse ANDAM
@Contact: younesse.andam@gmail.com
Description: This project is a personal implementation of an algorithm called PATCHMATCH that restores missing areas in an image.
The algorithm is presented in the following paper
PatchMatch A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm
for Structural Image Editing
by C.Barnes,E.Shechtman,A.Finkelstein and Dan B.Goldman
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), vol.28, aug-2009
For more information please refer to
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.php
Copyright (c) 2010-2011
Requirements
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To run the project you need to install Opencv library and link it to your project.
Opencv can be download it here
http://opencv.org/downloads.html
How to use
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The project accepts two images
1- The original image
2- The pruned image you can delete a part of interest in the image. The algorithm will patch the remaining image to give a natural result.
The project contains some example of images to try it. You may find them in image_files.
After choosing the image file, enter the paths of those image files in main.c
char fileNameInput[50] = YOUR_PATH_HERE_OF_ORIGINAL_IMAGE;
char fileNameMasked[50] = YOUR_PATH_HERE_OF_PRUNED_IMAGE;
Enjoy!!