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Interactive segmentation for image manipulation and composition is becoming increasingly important as digital imaging devices become ubiquitous. Users want to select objects in one image to put them in another. This paper proposes a method for selecting image regions that are likely to correspond to multicolored objects rather than just regions of similar color and/or texture. The method is based upon a physical analysis of neighboring regions using the reflectance ratio along the region borders. This measure provides an illumination and geometry invariant cue to scene coherence between regions of different color. Using this measure and a user-selected seed region, the computer can automatically or interactively grow the region to include neighboring regions of different color that are likely to be part of the same object.
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Maxwell, B.A. (1999). A Physics-Based Approach to Interactive Segmentation. In: Huijsmans, D.P., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Visual Information and Information Systems. VISUAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48762-X_64
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