Non-texture image inpainting using histogram of oriented gradients

This paper presents a novel and efficient algorithm for non-texture inpainting of images based on using the dominant orientation of local gradients. It first introduces the concept of a new matrix called orientation matrix and then uses it for faster and better inpainting. The process of propagating information is carried out by using a new formulation which leads to much more efficient computations than the previous methods. The gain is both in terms of computational complexity and visual quality. The promising results in contexts of text, scratch, and block loss inpainting demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.