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inpaint

inpaint verb: to reconstruct missing or damaged portions of images by interpolation of surrounding areas.

Verb

inpaint (third-person singular simple present inpaints, present participle inpainting, simple past and past participle inpainted)

  1. To reconstruct missing or damaged portions of images by interpolation of surrounding areas.
    • The philosophy behind Bayesian inpainting is quite simple and intuitive (see Figure 1): the way we human inpainters inpaint an incomplete picture mostly relies on two factors— […]2012, Tony F. Chan, Yunqing Huang, Tao Tang, Recent Progress in Computational and Applied PDES, page 75

Forms of inpaint

third-person singular presentinpaints
present participleinpainting
past participleinpainted
pastinpainted

Origin of inpaint

From in- + paint.

Questions about inpaint

What does inpaint mean?
Inpaint means to reconstruct missing or damaged portions of images by interpolation of surrounding areas.
What part of speech is inpaint?
Inpaint is a verb.
What is the past tense of inpaint?
The past tense of inpaint is inpainted.

Words near inpaint in the dictionary

  1. inoxidizability
  2. inoxidizable
  3. inoxidized
  4. inoxidizing
  5. INP
  6. inpaint
  7. inpainted
  8. inpainter
  9. inpainters
  10. inpainting
  11. inpaintings

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