Inpainting is the process of replacing areas in an image with a perceptually plausible substitution. A common technique is to iteratively match and fill small patches at the edge of the target region making use of similar patches from the same image. Nearly all inpainting algorithms based on this approach use a single patch size for the entire image. Yet, it seems clear that differently sized structures within the same image-for example a leaf versus a car tire-may require different patch sizes in order to achieve reasonable inpainting results. Likewise, a fixed patch size will give different results for the same image when the image resolution is doubled. A reasonable patch should therefore take into account the overall image size as well as the size and shape of the structures at the patch location. The aim of our paper is to study the effect of adaptively altering size and shape of the patch. We show that this technique leads to a better quality of the inpainting result compared to a fixed patch size.
This paper investigates decentralised markets in the German electricity system, defined as markets in specific regions in which regional electricity demand is met primarily by regional generation and the remaining demand is met on a system-wide level in a second step. The research question is: What impact do the size of decentralised markets and the type of authorised participants have in different levels of the energy transition? The results show that the greatest effects from decentralised markets are caused by an increased usage of gas-fired power plants, as they are the major dispatchable generators in the future electricity system, resulting in significantly higher CO2 emissions and electricity generation costs, but also higher local self-supply rates. With very high RES-E shares the results hardly differ between the reference case and decentralised market models. The size of decentralised markets has a lower impact than limited access for certain fuel types or generation capacity size. Although decentralised markets can reduce the load on the grid, the need for grid expansion does not decrease. Overall, we conclude that from a system perspective decentralised markets can lead to negative effects if they are not regulated appropriately, especially during the transformation phase of the electricity system.
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