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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Thomson Licensing, Issy de Moulineaux, FR;
Inventors:
Lorenzo Sorgi, Hannover, DE;
Markus Schlosser, Hannover, DE;
Assignee:
THOMSON LICENSING, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0079 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 7/0093 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for bilayer image segmentation are described. A set of segmentation seeds for the image is generated by analyzing a depth histogram of the image. Then a segmentation map is generated by minimizing an objective function, which models a directed flow from the foreground segmentation seeds towards the background segmentation seeds.