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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Aricent Technologies Luxembourg S.a.r.l., Luxembourg, LU;
Vishnu Vardhanan Asvatha Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Sk Sahariyaz Zaman, Bangalore, IN;
Aricent Holdings Luxembourg S.A.R.L., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
Certain embodiments of these teachings take inputs of a) an image to be segmented and b) a set of user input markers that identify at least a foreground of said image. From these inputs are determined strong foreground regions S, strong background regions Sand ambiguous regions G. Each ambiguous region Gis classified as either a weak foreground region Wor a weak background region Wby comparing color of each ambiguous region Gagainst color of regions adjacent thereto and merging the respective ambiguous region Gwith its adjacent region having a most similar color. The strong foreground regions Sare also merged with the weak foreground regions W. What is output therefrom is a foreground image of the image to be segmented, separate and distinct from any region that is classified as one of the strong background regions or weak background regions.