Modular inpainting method

A method for processing images, wherein a scenery is recorded as at least one raw image by at least one optical capture means mounted on a vehicle, in particular, and wherein image data of the scenery are mapped incompletely and/or erroneously in a subsequently rendered render image in at least one area, wherein the method comprises:

• identifying, by an image processor, the at least one area of incomplete and/or erroneous mapping in the render image on the basis of existing visibility restrictions;
• generating, by the image processor, masks that enclose the at least one area of incomplete and/or erroneous mapping as masked areas;
• reconstructing, by the image processor, image data in unmasked areas of the render image by digital inpainting and synthesizing together with the masked areas to produce a correction image;
• and
• displaying, by a display, the correction image,
• wherein the imcomplete and/or erroneous image data are reconstructed on the basis of at least one edge-based method, and
• wherein the at least one edge-based method
• comprises a level-set method, and/or
• predicts information in the at least one area of incomplete and/or erroneous mapping using a diffusion approach.