@conference {Rhemann2009a, title = {A perceptually motivated online benchmark for image matting}, booktitle = {2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops 2009}, volume = {2009 IEEE}, year = {2009}, pages = {1826{\textendash}1833}, abstract = {The availability of quantitative online benchmarks for low-level vision tasks such as stereo and optical flow has led to significant progress in the respective fields. This paper introduces such a benchmark for image matting. There are three key factors for a successful benchmarking system: (a) a challenging, high-quality ground truth test set; (b) an online evaluation repository that is dynamically updated with new results; (c) perceptually motivated error functions. Our new benchmark strives to meet all three criteria. We evaluated several matting methods with our benchmark and show that their performance varies depending on the error function. Also, our challenging test set reveals problems of existing algorithms, not reflected in previously reported results. We hope that our effort will lead to considerable progress in the field of image matting, and welcome the reader to visit our benchmark at www.alphamatting.com. {\textcopyright} 2009 IEEE.}, keywords = {Benchmark, Evaluation, Matting}, isbn = {9781424439935}, doi = {10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206503}, url = {www.alphamatting.com.}, author = {Rhemann, Christoph and Carsten Rother and Wang, Jue and Gelautz, Margrit and Kohli, Pushmeet and Rott, Pamela} }