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MPB: A modified Poisson blending technique

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Abstract

Image cloning has many useful applications, such as removing unwanted objects, fixing damaged parts of images, and panorama stitching. Instead of using pixel intensities, the gradient domain is used in Poisson image editing; however, it suffers from two main problems: color bleeding and bleeding artifacts. In this paper, a modified Poisson blending (MPB) technique is presented which ensures dependency on the boundary pixels of both target and source images rather than just those of the target. The problem of bleeding artifacts is reduced. This makes the proposed technique suitable for use in video compositing as it avoids the flickering caused by bleeding artifacts. To reduce the problem of color bleeding, we use an additional alpha compositing step. Our experimental results using the proposed technique show that MPB reduces the bleeding problems and generates more natural composited images than other techniques.

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Mahmoud Afifi received his B.S. degree in information technology in 2009, and M.S. degree in information technology in 2015, both from the Faculty of Computers and Information, Assiut University, Egypt. He is currently a teaching assistant in the Department of Information Technology, Assiut University, Egypt. Since June 2015, he has been the vice chair of the ACM student chapter, Assiut. In addition, he is a CG artist. His research interests include multimedia systems, image processing, and computer vision.

Khaled F. Hussain gained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering both from Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA, in 2001. From 2002 to 2006, he worked as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Central Florida. From 2006 to 2007, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Assiut University. Since 2007, he has been with the Department of Computer Science, Assiut University, and is currently an associate professor, executive director of the Multimedia Laboratory, and head of the Department of Multimedia, Assiut University. His major research interests include computer vision, computer graphics, augmented reality, and computer animation.

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Afifi, M., Hussain, K.F. MPB: A modified Poisson blending technique. Comp. Visual Media 1, 331–341 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41095-015-0027-z

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Keywords

  • image processing
  • image inpainting
  • image blending
  • image cloning
  • image enhancement