Research into an Image Inpainting Algorithm via Multilevel Attention Progression Mechanism

Existing image inpainting schemes generally have the problems of structural disorder and blurred texture details. This is mainly because, in the reconstruction process of the damaged area of the image, it is difficult for the inpainting network to make full use of the information in the nondamaged area to accurately infer the content of the damaged area. Therefore, the paper has proposed an image inpainting network driven by multilevel attention progression mechanism. The proposed network has compressed the high-level features extracted from the full-resolution image into multiscale compact features and then drives the compact features to perform multilevel order according to the scale size. Attention feature progression is to achieve the goal of the full progression of high-level features including structure and details in the network. To further realize fine-grained image inpainting and reconstruction, the paper has also proposed a composite granular discriminator to achieve image inpainting process performing global semantic constraints and nonspecific local dense constraints. The related experimental results in the paper can show that the proposed method can achieve higher quality repair results than state-of-the-art ones.