Disocclusion: a variational approach using level lines

Author

Masnou, Simon

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Anal. Numerique, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

76

Abstract

Object recognition, robot vision, image and film restoration may require the ability to perform disocclusion. We call disocclusion the recovery of occluded areas in a digital image by interpolation from their vicinity. It is shown in this paper how disocclusion can be performed by means of the level-lines structure, which offers a reliable, complete and contrast-invariant representation of images. Level-lines based disocclusion yields a solution that may have strong discontinuities. The proposed method is compatible with Kanizsa´s (1979) amodal completion theory

Keywords

image representation; image restoration; interpolation; variational techniques; amodal completion theory; contrast-invariant representation; digital image; discontinuities; film restoration; image restoration; interpolation; level-lines based disocclusion; object recognition; occluded areas; recovery; robot vision; variational approach; Digital images; Humans; Image edge detection; Image recognition; Image reconstruction; Image restoration; Image segmentation; Interpolation; Psychology; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1057-7149

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/83.982815

Filename

982815