inpaint

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ paint

Verb

inpaint (third-person singular simple present inpaints, present participle inpainting, simple past and past participle inpainted)

  1. To reconstruct missing or damaged portions of images by interpolation of surrounding areas.
    • 2012, Tony F. Chan, Yunqing Huang, Tao Tang, Recent Progress in Computational and Applied PDES, page 75:
      The philosophy behind Bayesian inpainting is quite simple and intuitive (see Figure 1): the way we human inpainters inpaint an incomplete picture mostly relies on two factors— […]
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