A stereo approach that handles the matting problem via imagewarping

TitleA stereo approach that handles the matting problem via imagewarping
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsBleyer, M, Gelautz, M, Rother, C, Rhemann, C
Conference Name2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops 2009
ISBN Number9781424439935
KeywordsAlpha Matting, Stereo Matching, Stereo Matting
Abstract

We propose an algorithm that simultaneously extracts disparities and alpha matting information given a stereo image pair. Our method divides the reference image into a set of overlapping, partially transparent color segments. Each segment pixel is assigned an alpha value and color. The disparity inside the segment is modeled via a plane. The goodness of alphas, colors and disparity planes is measured by a new energy function. Its basic idea is to use the three parameters for generating artificial views representing the left and right images. If alphas, colors and disparity planes are correct, these artificial images should be very similar to the real ones. For generating the artificial right view, we warp all pixels of the left into the geometry of the right image using the disparity planes. We introduce the assumption of constant solidity in order to correctly model how pixels' alpha values are affected by the warping operation. Experimental results on the Middlebury set show that our algorithm gives good results in comparison to the state-of-the-art in stereo matching. ©2009 IEEE.

DOI10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206656
Citation KeyBleyer2009