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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

C. Rhemann, C. Rother, P. Kohli, M. Gelautz:
"A Spatially Varying PSF-based Prior for Alpha Matting";
Poster: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010. CVPR '10, San Francisco, USA; 2010-06-13 - 2010-06-18; in: "IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010", IEEE, (2010), ISBN: 978-1-4244-6984-0; 8 pages.



English abstract:
In this paper we considerably improve on a state-of-the-art alpha matting approach by incorporating a new prior which is based on the image formation process. In particular, we model the prior probability of an alpha matte as the convolution of a high-resolution binary segmentation with the spatially varying point spread function (PSF) of the camera. Our main contribution is a new and efficient de-convolution approach that recovers the prior model, given an approximate alpha matte. By assuming that the PSF is a kernel with a single peak, we are able to recover the binary segmentation with an MRF-based approach, which exploits flux and a new way of enforcing connectivity. The spatially varying PSF is obtained via a partitioning of the image into regions of similar defocus. Incorporating our new prior model into a state-of-the-art matting technique produces results that outperform all competitors, which we confirm using a publicly available benchmark.

Keywords:
alpha matting, image segmentation, blur estimation


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2010.5539894

Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_189344.pdf


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