===================================== README: Inpainting based PatchMatch

@Author: Younesse ANDAM

@Contact: younesse.andam@gmail.com

Description: This project is a personal implementation of an algorithm called PATCHMATCH that restores missing areas in an image. The algorithm is presented in the following paper PatchMatch A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm
for Structural Image Editing
by C.Barnes,E.Shechtman,A.Finkelstein and Dan B.Goldman
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), vol.28, aug-2009

For more information please refer to
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.php

Copyright (c) 2010-2011

Requirements

To run the project you need to install Opencv library and link it to your project. Opencv can be download it here http://opencv.org/downloads.html

How to use

The project accepts two images 1- The original image 2- The pruned image you can delete a part of interest in the image. The algorithm will patch the remaining image to give a natural result.

The project contains some example of images to try it. You may find them in image_files. After choosing the image file, enter the paths of those image files in main.c

char fileNameInput[50] = YOUR_PATH_HERE_OF_ORIGINAL_IMAGE; char fileNameMasked[50] = YOUR_PATH_HERE_OF_PRUNED_IMAGE;

Enjoy!!