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Video Flash Matting: Video Foreground Object Extraction Using an Intermittent Flash

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The 1st International Conference on Advanced Intelligent System and Informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 407))

Abstract

Video foreground object extraction has many useful applications, such as changing background, duplicating foreground objects in the scene, and in virtual reality. The main task is to create an accurate alpha matte that specifies the foreground objects to be extracted. In this work, a new approach for video foreground object extraction is presented; this approach is called “Video Flash Matting”. An intermittent flash is used for creating bright frames that are used for creating the alpha matte of the foreground objects through the video. Bright frames contain lit foreground objects that are illuminated using the intermittent flash; however, the background is still under the same illumination without flash. According to that, foreground objects are extracted from the rest of the video using those bright frames. The results of the proposed approach show that Video Flash Matting extracts foreground objects using good alpha mattes without requiring trimaps. Video Flash Matting handles free camera and dynamic background conditions.

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  1. ACM Student Research Laboratory, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

    Mahmoud Afifi

  2. IT Department, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

    Mahmoud Afifi

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  1. Faculty of Computers & Informatics, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

    Tarek Gaber

  2. Department of Information Technology, Cairo University Faculty of Computers & Information, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  3. College of Management and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Giza, Egypt

    Nashwa El-Bendary

  4. Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    Nilanjan Dey

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Afifi, M. (2016). Video Flash Matting: Video Foreground Object Extraction Using an Intermittent Flash. In: Gaber, T., Hassanien, A., El-Bendary, N., Dey, N. (eds) The 1st International Conference on Advanced Intelligent System and Informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 407. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26690-9_10

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