Image inpainting using vanishing point analysis and scene segmentation

A new image inpainting technique is developed to fit perfectly for special categories of images that contain mainly buildings. This technique handles the need to obtain an image of building free from parking cars along sides of the roads. To do that, one needs to carefully inpaint the roads and the missing parts of images. This can be done by combining vanishing points detections and image segmentation. After detecting vanishing points, it is possible to draw the line dividing the missing regions into two parts: the road part and the building part. Each part should be then inpainted independently using a different source region for each one. A segmentation technique, which is based on color and texture features, is employed to extract a source region for road part inpainting. Simple geometric calculations are employed to detect the source region for building part inpainting.