“…Image inpainting is a restoration process that estimates the content of missing regions within images and videos and has sparked special interest in the area of computer vision (Elharrouss et al, 2020;Jam et al, 2020). Conventional inpainting algorithms use well known mathematical and statistical approximation methods such as biharmonic functions (Damelin & Hoang, 2018), Cahn-Hilliard equations (Bertozzi et al, 2006), anisotropic diffusion by partial differential equation modeling for propagating boundary data (Bertalmio et al, 2000), low-rank tensor completion (Li et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2021) and Gauss-Markov random field priors (Satapathy & Sahay, 2021;Efros & Leung, 1999). Alternatively, machine learning (ML) approaches have potential for inpainting tasks.…”