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Normalized Matting of Interest Region

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In this paper, we present an improved method of current closed-form solution for digital image matting. This method, which we call ‘normalized matting of interest region’, adopt the normalized cut technique where the objective function is normalized with the total degree of color similarities of foreground region. Unlike the existing solution, our method measures both the total dissimilarity between the foreground and background regions as well as the total similarity within foreground regions, which leads to better separation results, especially in case of extracting a specific region, rather than the closed-form solution. In addition, we employ a quadratic programming approach to solve the objective function to obtain a globally near-optimal matting result. Our method is empirically verified through several sample images.

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  1. Creative Content Research Lab., ETRI, Korea

    Jaehwan Kim & Ilkwon Jeong

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Baoxin Li

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

    Victor Zordan

  8. AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA

    James Klosowski

  9. ZIRST, Saint-Ismier Cedex, France

    Sabine Coquillart

  10. Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA, USA

    Xun Luo

  11. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford,, Oxford, UK

    Min Chen

  12. IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    David Gotz

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Kim, J., Jeong, I. (2013). Normalized Matting of Interest Region. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8034. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41939-3_43

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