New Appearance Models for Image Matting

By Dheeraj Singaraju, Carsten Rother, and Christoph Rhemann

Abstract

Image matting is the task of estimating a fore- and background layer from a single image. To solve this ill posed problem, an accurate modeling of the scene´s appearance is necessary. Existing methods that provide a closed form solution to this problem, assume that the colors of the foreground and background layers are locally linear. In this paper, we show that such models can be an overfit when the colors of the two layers are locally constant. We derive new closed form expressions in such cases, and show that our models are more compact than existing ones. In particular, the null space of our cost function is a subset of the null space constructed by existing approaches. We discuss the bias towards specific solutions for each formulation. Experiments on synthetic and real data confirm that our compact models estimate alpha mattes more accurately than existing techniques, without the need of additional user interaction.

Reference

D. Singaraju, C. Rother, C. Rhemann: "New Appearance Models for Image Matting"; Poster: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR '09, Anchorage, Alaska, USA; 06-20-2009 - 06-25-2009; in: "Proceddings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition", (2009), 8 pages.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{TUW-180665,     author = {Singaraju, Dheeraj and Rother, Carsten and Rhemann, Christoph},     title = {New Appearance Models for Image Matting},     booktitle = {Proceddings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},     year = {2009},     numpages = {8},     url = {http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_180665.pdf},     note = {Posterpr{\"a}sentation: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR '09, Anchorage, Alaska, USA; 2009-06-20 -- 2009-06-25} } Click into the text area and press Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C or ⌘+A/⌘+C to copy the BibTeX into your clipboard… or download the BibTeX.