Web-based image matting

Authors:
Yen-Chun Lin;Yi-Fang Hsieh;Hsiang-An Wang
Affiliations:
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan;National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan;National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Year:
2010

Citing 6
Cited 1

Blue screen matting

SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Poisson matting

ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
Flash matting

ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Soft scissors: an interactive tool for realtime high quality matting

ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers
A Closed-Form Solution to Natural Image Matting

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Adobe Photoshop CS3: Complete Concepts and Techniques

Adobe Photoshop CS3: Complete Concepts and Techniques

Image matting through a Web browser

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We present NTUST Image Matting (NIM), an interactive and Web-based tool for image matting. It is the first image matting tool accessible through a Web browser. NIM can extract a foreground with thin, thread-like shapes. It begins to process inputs immediately after the user has started to paint with a brush roughly along the boundary between the foreground and the background. The user can stop anywhere while painting, and change the width of brush as needed. This helps achieve good matting quality. The quality of the foreground extracted by NIM is generally better or not worse than those done by the other two online tools and Photoshop. The amount of time required to complete matting by NIM is reasonable.