Although the existing image inpainting methods can recover the content of the missing area of the image, there are still some problems, such as structure distortion, texture blurring and content discontinuity, so that the inpainted images cannot meet people’s visual requirements. To solve these problems, an image inpainting method based on dilated convolution was proposed. By introducing the idea of dilated convolution to increase the receptive field, the quality of image inpainting was improved. This method was based on the idea of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), which was divided into generative network and adversarial network. The generative network included global content inpainting network and local detail inpainting network, and gated convolution was used to realize the dynamical learning of the image features, solving the problem that the traditional convolution neural network method was not able to complete the large irregular missing areas well. Firstly, the global content inpainting network was used to obtain an initial content completion result, and then the local texture details were repaired by the local detail inpainting network. The adversarial network was composed of SN-PatchGAN discriminator, and was used to evaluate the image inpainting effect. Experimental results show that compared with the current image inpainting methods, the proposed method has great improvement in Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) and inception score. Moreover, the method effectively solves the problem of texture blurring in traditional inpainting methods, and meets people’s visual requirements better, verifying the validity and feasibility of the proposed method.