Blue screen matting

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 259-268

  Smith, Alvy Ray ^a   Blinn, James F ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha channel; Backing impurities; Backing shadows; Blue screen matte creation; Blue spill; Chromakey; Compositing; Flare; Separating surfaces; Triangulation matting

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SEPARATION;

ALPHA CHANNEL; BACKING SHADOWS; BLUE SCREEN; CHROMAKEY; COMPOSITING; FLARE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0003328493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/237170.237263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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