[Numpy-discussion] Help with interpolating missing values from a 3D scanner

[Stéfan van der Walt]

2009/1/16 Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>:
> of the missing region into the center. This is roughly akin to solving
> a PDE over the missing region using the known pixels as boundary
> conditions. I have no particular references for this approach, but I
> imagine you can dig up something in the literature about PDE-based
> image processing.

This technique is known as image inpainting:

http://www.iua.upf.es/~mbertalmio/restoration.html

Regards
Stéfan