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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
May. 16, 2011
Applicants:
Kaiming He, Beijing, CN;
Jian Sun, Beijing, CN;
Carsten Curt Eckard Rother, Cambridge, GB;
Xiao-ou Tang, Hong Kong, CN;
Inventors:
Kaiming He, Beijing, CN;
Jian Sun, Beijing, CN;
Carsten Curt Eckard Rother, Cambridge, GB;
Xiao-Ou Tang, Hong Kong, CN;
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20144 (2013.01); G06T 7/408 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computing device is described herein that is configured to select a pixel pair including a foreground pixel of an image and a background pixel of the image from a global set of pixels based at least on spatial distances from an unknown pixel and color distances from the unknown pixel. The computing device is further configured to determine an opacity measure for the unknown pixel based at least on the selected pixel pair.