Spectral Video Matting Martin Eisemann, Julia Wolf, Marcus Magnor

Martin Eisemann, Julia Wolf, and Marcus Magnor: "Spectral Video Matting", in Proc. Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), Braunschweig, Germany, pp. 121–126, November 2009. [pdf] [bib]

Abstract

We present a new, simple-to-use and rapid approach to video matting, the process of pulling a high-quality alpha matte from a video sequence.
Our approach builds upon techniques in natural image matting, namely spectral matting, and optical flow computation.
No additional hardware, despite a single camera, is needed, and only very few and intuitive user interactions are required for foreground estimation.
For certain scenes the approach is able to estimate the alpha matte for a video, consisting of up to 102 frames, without any user interaction at all.

TU Braunschweig - Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik - Computer Graphics - Publications - Spectral Video Matting