Inpaint Image (OpenCV)

How it fits

Typical backends

Caveats

• FallbackWhen the mask is empty or its dimensions do not match the source, the frame is logged and passed through unchanged rather than failing, so a missing or mis-sized mask silently disables inpainting for that tick instead of tearing down the stream.
• I/O contractExactly one Image is emitted per tick; an empty source frame is returned unchanged without even examining the mask.
• I/O contractThe mask is converted to greyscale and every non-zero pixel is treated as a hole, so anti-aliased or soft mask edges enlarge the region that gets filled; the output keeps the source's original colour space.
• Parameter interactionThe method knob selects between the sharper Fast Marching reconstruction and the smoother Navier-Stokes one, while the radius sets how wide a neighbourhood is blended — larger values smooth more at higher CPU cost, and values below the floor are clamped up.
• AccuracyThese are diffusion-based classical fills, not generative; they reconstruct from surrounding pixels well for thin defects but cannot hallucinate large or textured missing content.
• State lifetimeBoth knobs bind once at startup, so changing the method or radius requires a redeploy.