Patent №
US 7,724,952
Granted
2010-05-25
Filed 2006
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
3
ml · vision · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11434567
Foreground object matting uses flash/no-flash images pairs to obtain a flash-only image. A trimap is obtained from the flash-only image. A joint Bayesian algorithm uses the flash-only image, the trimap and one of the image of the scene taken without the flash or the image of the scene taken with the flash to generate a high quality matte that can be used to extract the foreground from the background.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 178310897
Assignors
SHUM, HEUNG-YEUNG, SUN, JIAN, KANG, SING BING, LI, YIN
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