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Automatically Extracting Hairstyles from 2D Images

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Automatic hair extraction from a given 2D image has been a challenging problem for a long time, especially when complex backgrounds and a wide variety of hairstyles are involved. This paper has made its contribution in the following three aspects. First, it proposes a novel framework that successfully combines the techniques of face detection, outlier-aware initial stroke placement and matting to extract the desired hairstyle from an input image. Second, it introduces an alpha space to facilitate the choice of matting parameters. Third, it defines a new comparison metric that is well suited for the alpha matte comparison. Our results show that, compared with the manually drawn trimaps for hair extraction, the proposed automatic algorithm can achieve about 86.2% extraction accuracy.

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  1. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Chuan-Kai Yang & Chia-Ning Kuo

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Baoxin Li

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

    Victor Zordan

  8. AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA

    James Klosowski

  9. ZIRST, Saint-Ismier Cedex, France

    Sabine Coquillart

  10. Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA, USA

    Xun Luo

  11. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford,, Oxford, UK

    Min Chen

  12. IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    David Gotz

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Yang, CK., Kuo, CN. (2013). Automatically Extracting Hairstyles from 2D Images. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8034. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41939-3_39

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