A closed-form solution to natural image matting

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-242

  Levin, Anat ^a   Lischinski, Dani ^a   Weiss, Yair ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Interactive image editing; Matting; Spectral segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER VISION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

INTERACTIVE IMAGE EDITING; NATURAL IMAGE MATTING; SPECTRAL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 37549020109     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1177     Document Type: Article

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