An improved seamless image cloning technique

Abstract

Creating an image with the help of two images, with seamless boundaries is called seamless image cloning.Image cloning is very useful task for computer graphics and image editing, which requires, producing an image by patching the source image or part of source image on target image, with seamless boundaries.Various techniques have been proposed for seamless image cloning which produce unrealistic results due to the variation in texture of source and target images. Results produced by previous techniques are not accurate. Boundary pixel of source image are not adjusted properly according to the target image. Thus purpose of seamless image cloning process is not fulfilled properly. Need of improvement in seamless image cloning technique is increased due to rapid development in image processing field and its practical implication in various fields. In this thesis an improved seamless image cloning technique has been proposed. This scheme utilizes the concept of Rolling Guidance Filter and Image smoothing via Lo Gradient filter. The source image is used to extract the part of image to be cloned on the target image. In order to make cloning process seamless Rolling Guidance filter is applied which improves the quality of the output image. Texture smoothing can help reduce noise from the target image. This noise of the image is result of cloning process. L0 Gradient filtered target image to make the cloned seamless image. Visual Comparison with previous techniques proves, that the proposed scheme improves the quality of the image and makes the proposed image cloning technique more seamless as compared to previous techniques. The cloned images are obtained with comparatively better accuracy.