A Closed Form Solution To Natural Image Matting

In this paper we present a closed form solution to natural image matting.

A closed form solution to natural image matting.

On computer vision and pattern recognition cvpr june 2006 new york. In this paper we present a closed form solution to natural image matting. A closed form solution to natural image matting anat levin dani lischinski yair weiss school of computer science and engineering the hebrew university of jerusalem alevin danix yweiss cs huji ac il abstract interactive digital matting the process of extracting a foreground object from an image based on limited user in. Interactive digital matting the process of extracting a foreground object from an image based on limited user input is an important task in image and video editing.

Matting refers to the process of extracting foreground object from an image. Matlab implementation of a. From a computer vision perspective this task is extremely challenging because it is massively ill posed at each pixel. A closed form solution to natural image matting levin et al.

We derive a cost function from local smoothness assumptions on foreground and background colors and show that in the. A closed form solution to natural image matting. Matting is an important task in image and video editing. Matting tasks usually produces a matte that can be used to separate foreground from the background in a given image.

On computer vision and pattern recognition cvpr june 2006 new york. A closed form solution to natural image matting. A closed form solution to natural image matting abstract. A closed form solution to natural image matting ieee conf.

We derive a cost function from local smoothness assumptions on foreground and background colors and show that in the resulting expression it is possible to analytically eliminate the foreground and background colors to obtain a quadratic cost function in alpha.