Interactive Image Matting

This project aims to extract the foreground from an input natural image with a trimap.

Natural Image

Original Image

Trimap

Trimap

Extracted Foreground

Foreground

 

 

 

References:

[1] Y. Chuang, B. Curless, D. Salesin, and R. Szeliski. A Bayesian approach to digital matting. In Proc. CVPR, 2001.

[2] C. Rother, A. Blake, and V. Kolmogorov. Grabcut - interactive foreground extraction using iterated graph cuts. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 309¨C314, 2004.

[3] A. Levin D. Lischinski and Y. Weiss. A Closed Form Solution to Natural Image Matting. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Feb 2008.

[4] Jue Wang and Michael Cohen. Optimized Color Sampling for Robust Matting. In Proc. CVPR, 2007.