Abstract A disparities assisted streetscape video inpainting method is proposed. Occlusions in the video are detected and the positional relationship between target region and reference region is built according to the disparities. A camera motion associated filling order as well as a progressive repairing strategy is applied in the proposed method. Because the disparity is a kind of pixel-wise positional relationship between images, the effectiveness of the proposed method is not related with the complexity of the scenes. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the proposed method has the capability to remove occlusions with lager area.
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