Automatic natural video matting with depth

Oliver Wang, Jonathan Finger, Yang Qingxiong, James Davis, Yang Ruigang

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Abstract

Video matting is the process of taking a sequence of frames, isolating the foreground, and replacing the background in each frame. We look at existing single-frame matting techniques and present a method that improves upon them by adding depth information acquired by a time-of-fiight range scanner. We use the depth information to automate the process so it can be practically used for video sequences. In addition, we show that we can improve the results from natural matting algorithms by adding a depth channel. The additional depth information allows us to reduce the artifacts that arise from ambiguities that occur when an object is a similar color to its background.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - The Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications Pacific Graphics 2007, PG
Pages469-472
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event15th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, Pacific Graphics 2007, PG - Maui, HI, United States
Duration: Oct 29 2007Nov 2 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
ISSN (Print)1550-4085

Conference

Conference15th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, Pacific Graphics 2007, PG
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMaui, HI
Period10/29/0711/2/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (all)

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