In Seinfeld episode #163, “The Slicer”, George has just landed a cushy job at Kruger Industrial Smoothing, when he sees himself in the background of a family photo on his new boss’s desk. George enacts the plan and things are going fine until he receives the touched-up photo: the clerk has removed Kruger from the family photo instead of George.

The clerk mistook Kruger in the photo for George, since in the picture George had hair but Kruger was bald. Removing the only bald person from the photo was a pretty reasonable thing for the photo store clerk to do. I figured this is something that photo editors have to do frequently, so I decided to automate it.

Now that bald individuals have been identified, they can be removed from the image. OpenCV has an inpainting function, which is really only meant for removing small strokes from an image. The results of applying it here are…not ideal.

source: HN