• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.61-69
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• 2021

Image outpainting is a very interesting problem in that it can continuously fill the outside of a given image by considering the context of the image. There are two main challenges in this work. The first is to maintain the spatial consistency of the content of the generated area and the original input. The second is to generate high quality large image with a small amount of adjacent information. Existing image outpainting methods have difficulties such as generating inconsistent, blurry, and repetitive pixels. However, thanks to the recent development of deep learning technology, deep learning-based algorithms that show high performance compared to existing traditional techniques have been introduced. Deep learning-based image outpainting has been actively researched with various networks proposed until now. In this paper, we would like to introduce the latest technology and trends in the field of outpainting. This study compared recent techniques by analyzing representative networks among deep learning-based outpainting algorithms and showed experimental results through various data sets and comparison methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.69-75
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• 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in deep learning-based animal pose estimation, especially in the areas of animal behavior analysis and healthcare. However, existing animal pose estimation techniques do not perform well when body parts are occluded or not present. In particular, the occlusion of dog tail or ear might lead to a significant degradation of performance in pet behavior and emotion recognition. In this paper, to solve this intractable problem, we propose a simple yet novel framework for pet pose estimation where pet pose is predicted on an outpainted image where some body parts hidden outside the input image are reconstructed by the image inpainting network preceding the pose estimation network, and we performed a preliminary study to test the feasibility of the proposed approach. We assessed CE-GAN and BAT-Fill for image outpainting, and evaluated SimpleBaseline for pet pose estimation. Our experimental results show that pet pose estimation on outpainted images generated using BAT-Fill outperforms the existing methods of pose estimation on outpainting-less input image.