A New Sense for Depth of Field
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Scale-Space and Edge Detection Using Anisotropic Diffusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
An Investigation of Methods for Determining Depth from Focus
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Depth from defocus: a spatial domain approach
International Journal of Computer Vision
Intelligent scissors for image composition
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
AutoKey: human assisted key extraction
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
International Journal of Computer Vision
Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Rational Filters for Passive Depth from Defocus
International Journal of Computer Vision
Two methods for display of high contrast images
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
International Journal of Computer Vision - Special issue on computer vision research at NEC Research Institute
Putting social sciences together again: an introduction to the volume
Dynamics in human and primate societies
Unsupervised Multiresolution Segmentation for Images with Low Depth of Field
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Video matting of complex scenes
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Photographic tone reproduction for digital images
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Review of Nonlinear Diffusion Filtering
SCALE-SPACE '97 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
"GrabCut": interactive foreground extraction using iterated graph cuts
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
Dynamic Range Reduction Inspired by Photoreceptor Physiology
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Dynamic Adaptation of Projected Imperceptible Codes
ISMAR '07 Proceedings of the 2007 6th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Automated removal of partial occlusion blur
ACCV'07 Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part I
GrabcutD: improved grabcut using depth information
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Surreal media and virtual cloning
Unsupervised and reliable image matting based on modified spectral matting
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
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In compositing applications, objects depicted in images frequently have to be separated from their background, so that they can be placed in a new environment. Alpha mattes are important tools aiding the selection of objects, but cannot normally be created in a fully automatic way. We present an algorithm that requires as input two images---one where the object is in focus, and one where the background is in focus---and then automatically produces an alpha matte indicating which pixels belong to the object. This algorithm is inspired by human visual processing and involves nonlinear response compression, center-surround mechanisms as well as a filling-in stage. The output can then be refined with standard computer vision techniques.