Image inpainting via spatial projections

Highlights：

• A novel architecture is proposed for image inpainting without any self-attention mechanism.

• A spatial projection layer is proposed to project the spatial information from non-hole regions to the hole regions for introducing efficient spatial consistency in the inpainted image.

• Unlike existing state-of-the-art architectures for image inpainting, we introduced the use the edge loss with Canny edge operator for better optimization of the proposed network.

• The comparison with existing state-of-the-art methods, detailed ablation study, user study and analysis on object removal task proves the superiority of proposed method over existing methods for image inpainting.