Advanced Image/Video Matting System
Matting technology is not a new technology in film industry. Current digital matting techniques can create fabulous realistic compositing. However, most of these traditional systems require consistent background which can make these systems hard to be used by normal home users.
Advanced image/video matting system can extract foreground object layer from background scene and hence the foreground layer is able to be put onto a novel scene to create unrealistic photos, without strong constraints on background scenes. A realtime video matting system can also be used in interactive entertainment to let players feel more involved in the virtual world, just because they can actually see themselves in it.
To get that great system running, we still need to solve a lot of very hard problems. How to decrease the constraints on images? How to increase the robustness? And, how to make it faster? ... Fortunately, we have a lot of people pursuing the same object now. Visit:
http://www.alphamatting.com/, you may find what they are doing and how great their results can be. I believe that in the near future, some unbelievable systems and applications of these technology will or have already appeared in our daily life.