A Markov random field model-based approach to natural image matting

Authors:
Sheng-You Lin;Jiao-Ying Shi
Affiliations:
Department of Communicative Technology, Zhejiang Institute of Media and Communication, Hangzhou, China;State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Venue:
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper proposes a Markov Random Field (MRF) model-based approach to natural image matting with complex scenes. After the trimap for matting is given manually, the unknown region is roughly segmented into several joint sub-regions. In each sub-region, we partition the colors of neighboring background or foreground pixels into several clusters in RGB color space and assign matting label to each unknown pixel. All the labels are modelled as an MRF and the matting problem is then formulated as a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation problem. Simulated annealing is used to find the optimal MAP estimation. The better results can be obtained under the same user-interactions when images are complex. Results of natural image matting experiments performed on complex images using this approach are shown and compared in this paper.