Fast Image Matting with Good Quality

Image matting is a technique to extract the foreground from an image. A new Web-based image matting tool named Fast Image Matting (FIM) is presented in this paper. To extract the foreground, the user paints roughly along the boundary between the foreground and the background. The computation begins when painting begins, and a partial result can be seen while the user is painting with the mouse, which acts as a brush. Compared to NIM, which is a similar predecessor, FIM not only improves the user interface for better foreground extraction quality, but also uses a different method to improve the processing speed and foreground quality. Experimental results show that FIM can perform faster and better than well-known non-online Adobe Photoshop and three online foreground extraction tools.

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