A closed-form solution to natural image matting

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. From a computer vision perspective, this task is extremely challenging because it is massively ill-posed -- at each pixel we must est...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 30(2008), 2 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 228-42
1. Verfasser: Levin, Anat (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lischinski, Dani, Weiss, Yair
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2008
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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