Extracting depth and matte using a color-filtered aperture
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 papers
Coordinates for instant image cloning
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers
Video SnapCut: robust video object cutout using localized classifiers
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers
Automatic and topology-preserving gradient mesh generation for image vectorization
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers
Invertible motion blur in video
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers
A closed-form solution to video matting of natural snow
Information Processing Letters
Sketch2Photo: internet image montage
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers
User-assisted intrinsic images
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers
Digital image matting based on hybrid distance transformation
ICCOMP'09 Proceedings of the WSEAES 13th international conference on Computers
SoftCuts: a soft edge smoothness prior for color image super-resolution
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Interactive natural image segmentation via spline regression
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Visual algorithms for post production
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Courses
Tissue Tracking in Thermo-physiological Imagery through Spatio-temporal Smoothing
MICCAI '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention: Part II
Automatic segmentation of focused objects from images with low depth of field
Pattern Recognition Letters
Temporally coherent video matting
Graphical Models
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
RepFinder: finding approximately repeated scene elements for image editing
ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers
A general learning framework using local and global regularization
Pattern Recognition
Extraction of non-binary blotch mattes
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
Graph-based foreground extraction in extended color space
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
Vector field fitting for real-time environment matting of transparent objects
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
Real-time video matting using multichannel poisson equations
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2010
Design of fractional order digital differentiator using radial basis function
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
Diffusion maps for edge-aware image editing
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 papers
A three-stage approach to shadow field estimation from partial boundary information
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing - Special section on distributed camera networks: sensing, processing, communication, and implementation
Multi-layer stereo video matting: video matting
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Closed-loop adaptation for robust tracking
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part I
Face image relighting using locally constrained global optimization
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part IV
Turbopixel segmentation using Eigen-images
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Volume matting: object tracking based matting tool
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Posters
Matte super-resolution for compositing
Proceedings of the 32nd DAGM conference on Pattern recognition
Understanding the optics to aid microscopy image segmentation
MICCAI'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention: Part I
Logistic label propagation for semi-supervised learning
ICONIP'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Neural information processing: theory and algorithms - Volume Part I
Automatic and accurate image matting
ICCCI'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part III
Image super-resolution by vectorizing edges
MMM'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advances in multimedia modeling - Volume Part I
Illumination decomposition for material recoloring with consistent interreflections
ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 papers
A convex image segmentation: extending graph cuts and closed-form matting
ACCV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part III
Joint Multi-Layer Segmentation and Reconstruction for Free-Viewpoint Video Applications
International Journal of Computer Vision
Defocus map estimation from a single image
Pattern Recognition
Multigrid and multilevel preconditioners for computational photography
Proceedings of the 2011 SIGGRAPH Asia Conference
Foreground prediction for bilayer segmentation of videos
Pattern Recognition Letters
Towards temporally-coherent video matting
MIRAGE'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer vision/computer graphics collaboration techniques
Multi-view alpha matte for free viewpoint rendering
MIRAGE'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer vision/computer graphics collaboration techniques
Image matting with transductive inference
MIRAGE'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer vision/computer graphics collaboration techniques
Interactive image segmentation by matching attributed relational graphs
Pattern Recognition
Motion deblurring from a single image using gradient enhancement
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry
Human action recognition using Pose-based discriminant embedding
Image Communication
A crosstalk tolerated neural segmentation methodology for Brainbow images
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies
Pattern Recognition Letters
Automatic Real-Time Video Matting Using Time-of-Flight Camera and Multichannel Poisson Equations
International Journal of Computer Vision
Dynamic curve color model for image matting
Pattern Recognition Letters
Realistic 2d facial animation from one image
ICEC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Single-view hair modeling for portrait manipulation
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2012 Conference Proceedings
Unsupervised and reliable image matting based on modified spectral matting
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Automatic image matting using component-hue-difference-based spectral matting
ACIIDS'12 Proceedings of the 4th Asian conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems - Volume Part II
Video composition by optimized 3D mean-value coordinates
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
LiveTree: realistic tree growth simulation tool
ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Posters
Bayesian image matting using infrared and color cues
ICISP'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Image and Signal Processing
Discontinuity-aware video object cutout
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Coherent intrinsic images from photo collections
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Alpha matting using artificial immune network
ICSI'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence - Volume Part I
Performance Capture of High-Speed Motion Using Staggered Multi-View Recording
Computer Graphics Forum
Image matting through a Web browser
Multimedia Tools and Applications
A locally linear regression model for boundary preserving regularization in stereo matching
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part V
Video matting using multi-frame nonlocal matting laplacian
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part VI
Image guided tone mapping with locally nonlinear model
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part IV
Automatic spectral video matting
Pattern Recognition
Estimating shadows with the bright channel cue
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Trends and Topics in Computer Vision - Volume Part II
Simulation of face/hairstyle swapping in photographs with skin texture synthesis
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Example-based video color grading
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2013 Conference Proceedings
Local covariance filtering for color images
ACCV'12 Proceedings of the 11th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part IV
"Wow! you are so beautiful today!"
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia
"Wow! you are so beautiful today!"
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
Inverse image editing: recovering a semantic editing history from a before-and-after image pair
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
PatchNet: a patch-based image representation for interactive library-driven image editing
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
A sparse control model for image and video editing
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
SimLocator: robust locator of similar objects in images
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
Using texture to complement color in image matting
Image and Vision Computing
Hough-based tracking of non-rigid objects
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Learning graph laplacian for image segmentation
Transactions on Computational Science XIX
Perception granular computing in visual haze-free task
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Smoke Detection in Video: An Image Separation Approach
International Journal of Computer Vision
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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 estimate the foreground and the background colors, as well as the foreground opacity (“alpha matte”) from a single color measurement. Current approaches either restrict the estimation to a small part of the image, estimating foreground and background colors based on nearby pixels where they are known, or perform iterative nonlinear estimation by alternating foreground and background color estimation with alpha estimation.In this paper we present a closed-form solution to natural image matting. 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. This allows us to find the globally optimal alpha matte by solving a sparse linear system of equations. Furthermore, the closed-form formula allows us to predict the properties of the solution by analyzing the eigenvectors of a sparse matrix, closely related to matrices used in spectral image segmentation algorithms. We show that high quality mattes for natural images may be obtained from a small amount of user input.