Image Inpainting Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Auto-encoder Network

QIANG Zhenping; HE Libo; DAI Fei; ZHANG Qinghui; LI Junqiu

doi:10.1049/cje.2020.09.008

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QIANG Zhenping, HE Libo, DAI Fei, et al., “Image Inpainting Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Auto-encoder Network,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1074-1084, 2020, doi: 10.1049/cje.2020.09.008

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QIANG Zhenping, HE Libo, DAI Fei, et al., “Image Inpainting Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Auto-encoder Network,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1074-1084, 2020, doi: 10.1049/cje.2020.09.008

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Image Inpainting Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Auto-encoder Network

doi: 10.1049/cje.2020.09.008

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College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China;
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Information Security College, Yunnan Police College, Kunming 650223, China

Funds: This work is supported by the Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects (No.202001AT070135, No.202002AD080002, No.2019ZE005), and Key Scientific Research Foundation Project of Southwest Forestry University (No.111827).

Received Date: 2019-10-17
Publish Date: 2020-12-25

Abstract

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This paper proposes an effective image inpainting method using an improved deep convolutional auto-encoder network. By analogy with exiting methods of image inpainting based on auto-decoders, inpainting methods using the deep convolutional auto-encoder networks are significantly more effective in capturing high-level features than classical methods based on exemplar. However, the inpainted regions would appear blurry and global inconsistency. To alleviate the fuzzy problem, we improved the network model by adding skip connections between mirrored layers in encoder and decoder stacks, so that the generative process of the inpainting area can directly use the low-level features information of the processing image. For making the inpainted result look both more plausible and consistent with its surrounding contexts, the model is trained with a combination of standard pixel-wise reconstruction loss and two adversarial losses which ensures pixel-accurate and local-global contents consistency. With extensive experimental on the ImageNet and Paris Streetview datasets, we demonstrate qualitatively and quantitatively that our approach performs better than state of the art.
- Image inpainting,
- Convolutional autoencoder network,
- Image completion,
- Skip connections

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