INTERACTIVE SEPARATION NETWORK FOR IMAGE INPAINTING

Image inpainting, also known as image completion, is the process of filling in the missing region of an incomplete image to make the repaired image visually plausible. Strided convolutional layer learns high-level representations while reducing the computational complexity, but fails to preserve existing detail from the original images (eg, texture, sharp transients), therefore it degrades the generative model in image inpainting task. To reduce the erosion of high-resolution components of images meanwhile maintaining the semantic representation, this paper designs a brand-new network called Interactive Separation Network that progressively decomposites the features into two streams and fuses them. Besides, the rationality of network design and the efficiency of proposed network is demonstrated in the ablation study. To the best of our knowledge, the experimental results of proposed method are superior to state-of-the-art inpainting approaches.