A new image multi-level-inpainting method

Although the Total Variation (TV) model has good performance in the image inpainting including both maintaining damaged images´ edge and reducing numerical calculation, it should be improved in the inpainting domain with rich texture. In this paper, an image multi-level-inpainting method based on TV model and texture synthesis scheme is proposed. It is the main research topic to improve the visual result of inpainted images with scratches including rich texture. At the first inpainting level, damaged images are calculated following the TV model, and then the patch-based texture synthesis scheme is used to improve the inpainted results of rich texture domain in the first level. Experimental results prove that the method has better performance in restoring an incomplete 2-D image in every detail that it looks more `complete´ and `natural´.