TR2007-052

Exploring Defocus Matting: Nonparametric Acceleration, Super-Resolution and Off-Center Matting
Citation: Joshi, N.; Matusik, W.; Avidan, S.; Pfister, H.; Freeman, W.T., "Exploring Defocus Matting: Nonparametric Acceleration, Super-Resolution and Off-Center Matting", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, ISSN: 0272-1716, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp. 43-52, March 2007
Date:March 2007
MERL Contact:Joseph Katz

Defocus matting is a fully automatic and passive method for pulling mattes from video captured with coaxial cameras that have different depths of field and planes of focus. Nonparametric sampling can accelerate the video-matting process from minutes to seconds per frame. In addition, a super-resolution technique efficiently bridges the gap between mattes from high-resolution video cameras and those from low-resolution cameras. Off-center matting pulls mattes for an external high-resolution camera that doesn't share the same center of projection as the low-resolution cameras used to capture the defocus matting data. In this article, we address these limitations and extend defocus matting in several important ways.

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