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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2019
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Takeda, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari, San Jose, CA (US);
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic apparatus and method for image-based mask frame interpolation is provided. The electronic apparatus receives a sequence of image frames, including a group of image frames and an intermediate image frame. The electronic apparatus generates foreground (FG) masks based on application of a trained Neural Network on the group of image frames and selects a Region-of-Interest (RoI) from a first image frame of the group of image frames. The electronic apparatus extracts first feature vectors for pixels within the selected RoI and second feature vector for a first pixel of the intermediate image frame. The electronic apparatus estimates a first mask value for the first pixel based on application of a statistical function on the first feature vectors and the second feature vector and generates an intermediate FG mask based on the estimated first mask value and re-estimation of mask values for remaining pixels of the intermediate image frame.