Chapter 12. Additional Problems in Image Processing

In this chapter, we will discuss a few more advanced problems in image processing. We'll start with the seam carving problem and demonstrate a couple of applications, the first onebeing the content-aware image resizing, and the second one being object removal from images. Next, we'll discuss seamless cloning, which can be used to seamlessly copy one object from an image to another image. Then we'll discuss an inpainting algorithm that can be used to restore damaged pixels in an image. After that, we'll look at variational methods in image processing with an application in image denoising. Next, we'll discuss the image quilting algorithm and its applications in texture synthesis and the transfer of images. We shall end our discussion with a sophisticated face morphing algorithm.

 The topics to be covered in this chapter are as follows:

• Seam carving
• Seamless cloning and Poisson image editing
• Image inpainting
• Variational image processing
• Image quilting...