Easy matting - A stroke based approach for continuous image matting

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 567-576

  Yu, Guan ^a   Wei, Chen ^a   Xiao, Liang ^a   Zi'ang, Ding ^a   Qunsheng, Peng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD (MRF); VIDEO MATTING; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; ENERGY-DRIVEN; FEATURE PRESERVING; IMAGE MATTING; INTERACTIVE IMAGES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; SPATIO TEMPORAL;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 33845463911     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.00976.x     Document Type: Article

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