A video completion method based on bandlet transform

We present a bandlet transform-based technique to complete missing parts of a video sequence captured with a static camera. The method is followed by a preprocessing step to separate the foreground which consists of moving objects and background frames in order to facilitate the video completion task. The technique considers two cases: 1) filling-in the background frames after removing objects, and 2) fillingin the occluded parts of a moving object. In the first case, a precise optimization in the bandlet domain is performed to complete the background video. In the second case, a priority based exemplar algorithm, which applies bandlet geometry properties, is used to fill-in the occluded moving object. Our experimental results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed video completion technique.