Image-wide matting

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2006-05-30

2009-12-08

Alavi, Amir (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Color image processing

C358S001900

Reexamination Certificate

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07630541

ABSTRACT:
An image-wide matting technique that involves modeling an image using a layered representation is presented. This representation includes a main pixel color layer, a secondary pixel color layer, an alpha layer and a noise layer. The four-layer representation is generated using a statistical model. Once generated, this representation can be used advantageously in a number of image editing operations.

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Co-pending U.S. Appl. No. 11/420,999, “Image Editing Using Image-Wide Matting,” filed May 30, 2006.

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