Because of moisture in meat

there would be reflective area in the meat image under visible light

which lead to the loss of some muscle information. In order to improve the accuracy of obtaining meat image’s related information

it is necessary to restore the reflective area as much as possible. Based on the algorithm of image completion by exemplar path

with the feature of meat image

an improved algorithm is presented in this paper. First

replacing Robert operator with Prewitt

so that the LISREL of information lost area get better preserved. Then

by using twice matching method

the amount of scanning data is reduced in the process of searching the best matched block

and the repair time is saved about 2/3 of original algorithm. After that

to eliminate seam effects

adding α-cut Mean Filter in the process of inpainting

it makes the repair results meet the requirements of visual psychology better. The experimental results show that both the inpainting efficiency and effect of improved algorithm are better than the original

and the method can not only repair the reflective area of meat image

but also be useful for other images’ inpainting.