inpainting

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noun

A technique in which missing or damaged portions of images are reconstructed by interpolation of surrounding areas.

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Meanings

nouninpainting (countable and uncountable, plural inpaintings)

plural inpaintings

  1. countableuncountableA technique in which missing or damaged portions of images are reconstructed by interpolation of surrounding areas.

    The philosophy behind Bayesian inpainting is quite simple and intuitive (see Figure 1): the way we human inpainters inpaint an incomplete picture mostly relies on two factors— […]

    2012, Tony F. Chan, Yunqing Huang, Tao Tang, Recent Progress in Computational and Applied PDES, page 75
  2. countableuncountableA portion of an image created by this technique.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of inpaint
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APA

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Chicago

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