A novel and fast exemplar based approach for filling missing portions in an image

This paper discusses a novel and fast exemplar based approach for filling missing portions in an image. Images are used everywhere and a single image can express more than a thousand words. Inpainting is the art of modifying an image in a form that is not detectable by an ordinary observer. There are numerous and very different approaches to tackle the inpainting problem. This work is based on the exemplar based approach. The basic idea behind this approach is to find a similar patch with a higher priority from the original image and replace the lost data with it. This technique can be used in restoring old photographs or damaged film. It can also be used in removing superimposed text like dates, subtitles etc., or even entire objects from the image.