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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
May. 15, 2006
Applicants:
Heung-yeung Shum, Redmond, WA (US);
Jian Sun, Beijing, CN;
Sing Bing Kang, Redmond, WA (US);
Yin LI, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Heung-Yeung Shum, Redmond, WA (US);
Jian Sun, Beijing, CN;
Sing Bing Kang, Redmond, WA (US);
Yin Li, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Foreground object matting uses flash/no-flash images pairs to obtain a flash-only image. A trimap is obtained from the flash-only image. A joint Bayesian algorithm uses the flash-only image, the trimap and one of the image of the scene taken without the flash or the image of the scene taken with the flash to generate a high quality matte that can be used to extract the foreground from the background.