Abstract:As an important digital image manipulation technique, image cloning can naturally and smoothly embed the cloned region in the source image into the specified region in the target image. In traditional image cloning technique, image information can be obtained by analyzing the gradient domains and solving Poisson equations. Its shortcomings of great algorithm complexity and large memory consumption limit the real application of traditional algorithm in high-resolution image. An improved mean-value coordinates algorithm is proposed in this paper, which transforms image cloning into efficient image interpolation procedure easy to implement. Moreover, the multi-scale and GPGPU based parallel computation technique is applied to further improve the overall operation efficiency of the proposed algorithm. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can realize the real-time cloning for the 1 mega pixel image region.