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Extracting the Foreground from Video Based on a New Sampling Method

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In this paper, we propose a new video matting method based on sampling. By detecting the movement of foreground and background objects from video, we define the local transformation which transfer the small areas between different frames in the video. By the local transformation, foreground and the occluded background object can be sampled from neighbor frames. Benefited from temporal consistency, we can get high quality alpha matte. Experiment results show that our method achieves ideal results in the scenes where old method get poor results.

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This work is supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, under grant LY13F020019, The Natural Science Foundation of China (No.u1304616).

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Pan, Q., Shen, Y., Bao, Y., Lin, X., Liu, J. (2015). Extracting the Foreground from Video Based on a New Sampling Method. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A., Mueller, W., Zhang, M. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment XI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8971. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48247-6_7

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