Advances in Visual Data Compression and Communication

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Chapter 10

Edge-Based Inpainting

10.1 Introduction

Over the last two decades, great improvements have been made in image and video

compression techniques driven by a growing demand for storage and transmission

of visual information. State-of-the-art JPEG 2000 and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 are two

examples that significantly outperform their previous rivals in terms of coding ef-

ficiency. However, these mainstream signal-processing-based compression schemes

share a common architecture, namely, transform followed by entropy coding, where

only the statistical redundancy among pixels is considered as the adversary of coding.

Through two decades of development, it has been becoming difficult to continuously

improve coding performance under such architecture. ...