Matting through Variational Inpainting
Kang-Yu Ni, Sheshadri R. Thiruvenkadam, Tony Fan-Cheong Chan · 2007
Abstract. While current matting algorithms work very well for some natural images, their performance is questionable in the presence of sharp discontinuities in the foreground and/or background regions. To resolve this problem, we propose to use variational PDE-based inpainting techniques to examine the matting problem, that are highly successful in inpainting geometric features into unknown regions. Key words: matting, variational inpainting. 1