outpaint

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ paint.

Verb

outpaint (third-person singular simple present outpaints, present participle outpainting, simple past and past participle outpainted)

1. (transitive) To paint more or better than; to surpass in painting.

   to outpaint Picasso

2. (transitive, intransitive) To extend an image by guessing how it might look beyond its borders; to perform the inverse of a crop (chiefly in the context of AI image models).
   • 2022, Karim Yasser et al., “Egyart classify: an approach to classify outpainted Egyptian monuments images using GAN and ResNet”, in 2022 2nd International Mobile, Intelligent, and Ubiquitous Computing Conference, →DOI, page 166:

     Our system treats this challenge using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a deep learning technique that outpaints the cropped image.

Related terms

• inpaint

 

Anagrams

• paint out, putation