
Chapter 14
Inpainting
14.1 Introduction
The problem of automatically removing objects in video sequences is called
video inpainting, as an extension of the image inpainting terminology that
refers to the same problem for still digital images. This terminology was intro-
duced in the year 2000 in the original “Image inpainting” article, by Bertalm´ıo
et al. [101], that adopted the denomination used in art restoration to denote
the modification of a painting in a way that is non-detectable for an observer
who does not know the original artwork. Other popular terms are image com-
pletion, image fill-in, image repair and image disocclusion, the latter being ...