Image Inpainting Approaches - A Review

Image inpainting is an ancient art. There may bedifferent factors which cause deterioration of images includingenvironmental factors, chemical processing, improper storageand more. Inpainting is the process which restores thedeteriorated parts of the image. This paper proposes two majortypes of inpainting approaches i.e. 2D image inpainting anddepth map inpainting. Image inpainting refers to recovercorrupted parts of images by applying structural, textural orboth the methods simultaneously. Whereas, depth mapinpainting mainly used to improve the 3D visualization effect byimproving the depth map associated with scene. Some of theimage inpainting approaches can also be applied to depth maps. This paper gives overview of such approaches as well as thosewhich are specifically meant for depth maps.