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PatchMatch

PatchMatch is an algorithm used to quickly find correspondences (or matches) between small square regions (or patches) of an image. It has various applications in image editing, such as reshuffling or removing objects from images or altering their aspect ratios without cropping or noticeably stretching them. PatchMatch was first presented in a 2011 paper…

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Algorithm

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PatchMatch

Nodes18
Edges17
Triples8
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.111111
Components1

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PatchMatch

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related to References · 7
PatchMatch → Adam Finkelstein, Connelly Barnes, Dan, Eli Shechtman, Goldman, Randomized Correspondence Algorithm, Structural Image Editing
is a · 1
PatchMatch → algorithm used to quickly find correspondences

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Important terminology

algorithm displaystyle image random search offsets patch iteration nnf process used find matches patches editing initialization propagation halting criterion also

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PatchMatchis aalgorithm used to quickly find correspondences0.90text
PatchMatchrelated to ReferencesConnelly Barnes0.60section
PatchMatchrelated to ReferencesEli Shechtman0.60section
PatchMatchrelated to ReferencesAdam Finkelstein0.60section
PatchMatchrelated to ReferencesDan0.60section
PatchMatchrelated to ReferencesGoldman0.60section
PatchMatchrelated to ReferencesRandomized Correspondence Algorithm0.60section
PatchMatchrelated to ReferencesStructural Image Editing0.60section

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