2D Microstructure Reconstruction for SEM via Non-local Patch-Based Image Inpainting

Microstructure reconstruction is a long-standing problem in experimental and computational materials science, for which numerous attempts have been made to solve. However, the majority of approaches often treats microstructure as discrete phases, which, in turn, reduces the quality of the resulting microstructures and limits its usage to the computational level of fidelity, but not the experimental level of fidelity. In this work, we applied our previously proposed approach [41] to generate synthetic microstructure images at the experimental level of fidelity for the UltraHigh Carbon Steel DataBase (UHCSDB) [13].