NVIDIAVoice: AI Research Is Pushing The Limits Of What's Possible

Image inpainting, the task of filling in holes in an image, can be used in various applications. For instance, it can be used in image editing to delete unwanted content, while backfilling in the remaining space with related imagery. Researchers from NVIDIA expanded upon this by introducing a deep learning method inside a photo editing software that can handle gaps of any shape, size location, or distance from the image borders. Previous deep learning approaches have focused on rectangular areas located around the center of the image, and require expensive post-processing. With this new model, this team was the first to demonstrate the efficacy of deep learning image inpainting on irregularly shaped holes.