Free-Form Image Inpainting with Gated Convolution
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We present a novel deep learning based image inpainting system to complete images with free-form masks and inputs. The system is based on gated convolutions learned from millions of images without additional labelling efforts. The proposed gated convolution solves the issue of vanilla convolution that treats all input pixels as valid ones, generalizes partial convolution by providing a learnable dynamic feature selection mechanism for each channel at each spatial location across all layers. Moreover, as free-form masks may appear anywhere in images with any shapes, global and local GANs designed for a single rectangular mask are not suitable. To this end, we also present a novel GAN loss, named SN-PatchGAN, by applying spectral-normalized discriminators on dense image patches. It is simple in formulation, fast and stable in training. Results on automatic image inpainting and user-guided extension demonstrate that our system generates higher-quality and more flexible results than previous methods. We show that our system helps users quickly remove distracting objects, modify image layouts, clear watermarks, edit faces and interactively create novel objects in images. Furthermore, visualization of learned feature representations reveals the effectiveness of gated convolution and provides an interpretation of how the proposed neural network fills in missing regions. More high-resolution results and video materials are available at http://jiahuiyu.com/deepfill2
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