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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2015
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Jian Fan, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In one example, a method of automatically enhancing a digital image having a smooth-boundaried foreground object. The method processes the image via gradient-based background segmentation at a first scale to generate a first mask. The first mask has a first accuracy. The first mask is used to generate a first background of the image which includes at least a portion of the smooth-boundaried foreground object. The method further processes the first background via gradient-based background segmentation at a smaller second scale to generate a second mask. The second mask has a greater second accuracy. The second mask is used with the first mask to generate a second background of the image which substantially excludes the smooth-boundaried foreground object. The image can be enhanced using the second background so as to preserve the smooth-boundaried foreground object.