Bilayer Segmentation of Live Video in Uncontrolled Environments for Background Substitution: An Overview and Main Challenges

• Published in: Revista IEEE América Latina Vol. 10; no. 5; pp. 2138 - 2149
• Main Authors: Sanches, S. R. R., Nakamura, R., da Silva, V. F., Tori, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos IEEE 01.09.2012; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Background Substitution; Bilayer Segmentation; Cameras; Color; Computer Vision; Devices; Illumination; Image coding; Image Processing; Image segmentation; Live Video; Optimization; Probabilistic logic; Robustness; Segmentation; Solid modeling; Studies; Tasks

Bilayer segmentation of live video in uncontrolled environments is an essential task for home applications in which the original background of the scene must be replaced, as in video chats or traditional videoconference. The main challenge in such conditions is overcome all difficulties in problem-s...