Excellent walkthrough of image inpainting with segmentation. One aspect I found particularly interesting is how segmentation masks significantly influence the quality of the inpainted regions, especially for complex scenes where object boundaries matter.

I recently explored the broader evolution of image inpainting techniques—from traditional PDE-based methods and exemplar-based approaches to LaMa, MAT, and diffusion-based models. It's fascinating to see how segmentation is becoming increasingly important in modern inpainting pipelines.

Looking forward to the next chapters and more hands-on experiments.