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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Carsten Curt Eckard Rother, Cambridge, GB;
Toby Sharp, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of up-sampling binary images for segmentation is described. In an embodiment, digital images are down-sampled before segmentation. The resulting initial binary segmentation, which has a lower resolution than the original image, is then up-sampled and smoothed to generate an interim non-binary solution which has a higher resolution than the initial binary segmentation. The final binary segmentation for the image is then computed from the interim non-binary solution based on a threshold. This method does not use the original image data in inferring the final binary segmentation solution from the initial binary segmentation. In an embodiment, the method may be applied to all images and in another embodiment, the method may be used for images which comprise a large number of pixels in total or in single dimension and smaller images may not be down-sampled before segmentation.