Abstract: This paper changed the searching scope of the original exemplar-based image inpainting from the whole image domain into a user-defined domain, which guarantees that the suitable structure is inpainted, and thereby efficiently improved inpainting results. Meanwhile, the original fixed size of the exemplar was also changed into an automatically adjusted size, which significantly improved the searching speed. This algorithm has been successfully applied to remotely sensed data.

Key words: priority, exemplar, matching, image inpainting, priority, exemplar, matching