Sampling-based approaches for image and video matting

• Main Author: Ehsan Shahrian Varnousfaderani
• Other Authors: Deepu Rajan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55279
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Image matting methods play a fundamental role in image and video editing operations. They can be generally categorized into $\alpha$-propagation and color sampling based methods. The color statistics are leveraged to correlate neighboring pixels and propagate alpha from known regions toward unkno...