Inpaint Object Remover

This is the implementation of the algorithm described in the paper "Region Filling and Object Removal by Exemplar-Based Image Inpainting" by A. Criminisi et al.

Setup

Requires python 3.5 or newer. You can download it here.

Linux and Mac OS X

Inside the project's directory run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

to install the dependencies.

Windows

Download NumPy and SciPy from here, being the number after cp your version of python. (e.g. if you have python 3.5 64 bits download numpy‑1.13.1+mkl‑cp35‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl and scipy‑0.19.1‑cp35‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl)

Then run pip install <path to downloaded file> for each file.

After this, inside the project's directory, run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

to install the other dependencies.

How to use

Inside the project's directory run:

python inpainter <path to image> <path to mask>

You can also pass the --plot-progress argument to watch the image being created. For example, use:

python inpainter resources/image1.jpg resources/mask1.jpg --plot-progress

to process image1 inside resources folder using mask1 while printing each result. I provided some images from the paper inside the resources folder.

Use python inpainter -h to show the available arguments.