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For example, decorative text that specifies where the image was taken,\nrepeatedly appears across a variety of different images. Often, the reoccurring\nvisual motif, is semantically similar, yet, differs in location, style and\ncontent (e.g. text placement, font and letters). This work proposes a deep\nlearning based technique for blind removal of such objects. In the blind\nsetting, the location and exact geometry of the motif are unknown. Our approach\nsimultaneously estimates which pixels contain the visual motif, and synthesizes\nthe underlying latent image. 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