Overview
A Julia package for fast 3D image quilting simulation.
This package implements an extension to the famous Efros-Freeman algorithm for texture synthesis and transfer in computer vision. Unlike the original algorithm developed for 2D images, our method can also handle 3D masked grids and pre-existing point-data very efficiently (the fastest in the literature). For more details, please refer to our paper in Citation.

Features
- Masked grids
- Hard data conditioning
- Soft data conditioning
- Fast computation with GPUs
Installation
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Usage
This package is part of the GeoStats.jl framework. See its documentation for examples of practical use.
Low-level API
If you are interested in using the package without GeoStats.jl, please use the following function:
ImageQuilting.iqsim — Functioniqsim(trainimg::AbstractArray{T,N}, tilesize::Dims{N},
simsize::Dims{N}=size(trainimg);
overlap::NTuple{N,<:Real}=ntuple(i->1/6,N),
soft::AbstractVector=[], hard::Dict=Dict(), tol::Real=.1,
path::Symbol=:raster, nreal::Integer=1,
debug::Bool=false, showprogress::Bool=true,
rng::AbstractRNG=Random.default_rng())Performs image quilting simulation as described in Hoffimann et al. 2017.
Parameters
Required
trainimgis any Julia arraytilesizeis the tile size
Optional
simsizeis the size of the simulation grid (default to training image size)overlapis the percentage of overlap (default to 1/6 of tile size)softis a vector of(data,dataTI)pairs (default to none)hardis a dictionary mapping coordinates to data values (default to none)tolis the initial relaxation tolerance in (0,1] (default to .1)pathis the simulation path (:raster,:dilationor:random)nrealis the number of realizations (default to 1)debuginforms whether to export or not the boundary cuts and voxel reuseshowprogressinforms whether to show or not estimated time durationrngis the random number generator (default toRandom.default_rng())
The main output reals consists of a list of realizations that can be indexed with reals[1], reals[2], ..., reals[nreal]. If debug=true, additional output is generated:
reals, cuts, voxs = iqsim(..., debug=true)cuts[i] is the boundary cut for reals[i] and voxs[i] is the associated voxel reuse.
The major difference compared to the high-level API is that the iqsim function has no notion of coordinate system, and you will have to pre/post-process the data manually to match it with the cells in the simulation grid.
GeoStats.jl takes the coordinate system into account and also enables parallel simulation on clusters of computers with distributed memory.