Current state-of-the-art image-based scene reconstruction
techniques are capable of generating high-fidelity 3D
models when used under controlled capture conditions.
However, th...
Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Joe Kilner and Adrian Hilton
Joke-o-mat HD is a system that allows a user to navigate sitcoms (such as Seinfeld) by "narrative themes", including scenes, punchlines, and dialog segments. The themes ...
We present a new approach to iteratively estimate both
high-quality depth map and alpha matte from a single image
or a video sequence. Scene depth, which is invariant
to illumin...
Jiejie Zhu (University of Kentucky), Miao Liao (Un...
A classical problem of imaging--the matting problem--is separation of a non-rectangular foreground image from a (usually) rectangular background image--for example, in a film fram...
Natural image matting plays an important role in image and video editing. It has been addressed hotly because it is inherently an under-constrained problem – we must estimate bo...