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PatchMatch based Inpainting

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This library implements the PatchMatch based inpainting algorithm. It provides both C++ and Python interfaces. This implementation is heavily based on the implementation by Younesse ANDAM: younesse-cv/PatchMatch, with some bug fixes, and updates. This repository continues vacancy/PyPatchMatch by Jiayuan Mao, through the forks lkwq007/PyPatchMatch and invoke-ai/PyPatchMatch.

Birdhouses removed from a photo by patchmatch.inpaint

From left to right: the photo, the input of examples/py_example.py with the birdhouses painted out in white, and its result.

Installation

pip install PyPatchMatch

Wheels for Linux (glibc, x86_64 and aarch64), macOS 11+ (arm64 and x86_64) and Windows (x64) ship the compiled library with a statically linked OpenCV, so no compiler or OpenCV installation is needed. On other platforms, e.g. Alpine Linux or Windows on ARM, pip builds from the source distribution, which requires a C++17 compiler, CMake and the OpenCV development files (e.g. apt install libopencv-dev or brew install opencv).

If that build fails, PyPatchMatch is installed without the native library instead of blocking the installation: patchmatch.patchmatch_available is False and the inpainting functions raise RuntimeError. After installing the missing tools, reinstall it without the cached build:

pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps --no-cache-dir PyPatchMatch

Usage

Python (see examples/py_example.py):

import patchmatch

image = ...  # HxWx3 uint8 numpy array or PIL image
mask = ...  # HxW uint8 or bool numpy array or PIL image, non-zero marks the holes
result = patchmatch.inpaint(image, mask, patch_size=3)

The mask must have the same height and width as the image. If mask is omitted, all pure white pixels are treated as holes. Only the holes are filled; all other pixels keep their values, and the colors under the holes have no influence on the fill. Holes need hard edges: an anti-aliased brush leaves light pixels along the edge of its strokes that are not pure white, so they count as known and the fill continues them. Paint without anti-aliasing or pass a mask that covers those pixels as well. The optional keyword argument global_mask, in the same format, marks pixels that are neither filled nor used as a source; they keep their values as well, and their colors have no influence on the fill (see examples/py_example_global_mask.py). patchmatch.patchmatch_available tells whether the native library could be loaded. The previous import path from patchmatch import patch_match keeps working.

patch_size is the radius of the compared patches, which span 2 * patch_size + 1 pixels in each direction. Larger patches follow larger structures but are much slower; the default of 15 compares 31x31 patches, the examples use 3. Below 5, the coarse levels that lay out the fill are also tried with a radius of 5, which is kept where it fits the surroundings better, so that repeating patterns continue across larger holes. Above 7, coarse levels narrower than six patches use the largest radius that fits, but at least 7: larger patches found no sources there and left the fill flat.

patchmatch.set_random_seed(seed) sets the seed of the randomized search, modulo 2**32, and patchmatch.set_verbose(True) prints the progress of the native code to stderr. patchmatch.inpaint_regularity(image, mask, ijmap) additionally guides the search with a regularity map, an HxWx3 float32 array with the regularity coordinates of each pixel in its first two channels. Its guide_weight must be between 0 and the largest float32, about 3.4e38.

C++ (see examples/cpp_example.cpp, build and run it with examples/cpp_example_run.sh):

#include "inpaint.h"

int main() {
    cv::Mat image = ...;
    cv::Mat mask = ...;

    auto metric = PatchSSDDistanceMetric(5);
    cv::Mat result = Inpainting(image, mask, &metric).run();
}

The library is built with CMake; PATCHMATCH_BUILD_EXAMPLES builds the example.

Development

The project is managed with uv:

uv sync                        # create .venv, build the library, install dev deps
uv run pre-commit install      # enable ruff and the other hooks on commit
uv run pytest                  # run the test suite
uv run pytest -m "not e2e"     # only the fast unit tests
uv run python scripts/evaluate_inpainting.py  # measure the fill quality
uv run --group gui gui/app.py  # draw masks in the browser, http://127.0.0.1:7860

The GUI tries new images quickly, without writing a script for each one, e.g. to pick new examples or to verify edge cases: load an image, paint the holes (every painted pixel is one) and compare the original with the fill. Its test runs with uv run --group gui pytest gui --no-cov.

The evaluation cuts holes into the images of examples/images, compares the fills with the original content and writes examples/images/evaluation.html, which shows them side by side. --baseline evaluates another build of the library as well, e.g. of the main branch; the docstring of the script explains the columns. Pull requests that change the C++ code get this comparison with their base commit in the summary of the workflow "Fill quality", and the HTML report as its artifact.

Releases are published to PyPI by creating a GitHub release; the version is taken from its tag (e.g. v2.0.0). Every released wheel and sdist carries a build provenance attestation: gh attestation verify <file> -R mauwii/PyPatchMatch.

License

PyPatchMatch is released under the MIT License. The wheels contain a statically linked build of OpenCV core (Apache-2.0) and its bundled third-party code; their licenses are included in the licenses/opencv directory of the wheel's .dist-info, and a CycloneDX SBOM of OpenCV (PEP 770) in sboms/opencv.cdx.json, so that vulnerability scanners can find it.

@Author: Younesse ANDAM

@Contact: younesse.andam@gmail.com

Description:

This project is a personal implementation of an algorithm called PATCHMATCH that restores missing areas in an image. The algorithm is presented in the following paper PatchMatch A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing by C.Barnes, E.Shechtman, A.Finkelstein and Dan B.Goldman ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), vol.28, aug-2009

For more information please refer to https://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/

Copyright (c) 2010-2011

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