SDM: Spatial Diffusion Model for Large Hole Image Inpainting
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have made great success in image
inpainting yet still have difficulties tackling large missing regions. In
contrast, iterative algorithms, such as autoregressive and denoising diffusion
models, have to be deployed with massive computing resources for decent effect.
To overcome the respective limitations, we present a novel spatial diffusion
model (SDM) that uses a few iterations to gradually deliver informative pixels
to the entire image, largely enhancing the inference efficiency. Also, thanks
to the proposed decoupled probabilistic modeling and spatial diffusion scheme,
our method achieves high-quality large-hole completion. On multiple benchmarks,
we achieve new state-of-the-art performance. Code is released at
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