Image-Restoration

Various techniques, including image inpainting, super resolution, denoising, etc are ways of restoring/conserving an old image or photograph.
In this repository we shall look into some inpainting and super resolution techniques of restoring old photos.

Requirements/dependencies:

• Python 3.x
• OpenCV
• Matplotlib

All of them can be installed via conda or pip e.g.

conda install matplotlib  

or

pip install matplotlib

Usage

Image Inpainting using OpenCV:

First run the mask_generator.py to generate a mask for the given input image.
If you already have the mask for the corresponding input image, then skip the mask generation step.
Then to inpaint the image with the generated mask, run the inpainting-using-opencv.py by passing arguements. e.g.

python inpainting-using-opencv.py --image [path to the image] --mask [path to the mask of the input image]  --method ['ns' or 'telea']