Texture aware image error concealment with fuzzy segmentation

We propose a fast technique for concealment of transmission errors in images. Corrupted regions are restored by texture extrapolation from the surrounding regions logically associated through image segmentation. Areas in the image containing unsharp edges or gradients, which are difficult to segment properly, are the main problem producing artefacts in the result. Therefore, our approach utilizes a fuzzy segmentation where segments include soft edges and are allowed to overlap.