FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND SEGMENTATION IN DIGITAL IMAGES

摘要

An implementation efficient method of distinguishing between foreground and background regions of a digital image of a scene comprises capturing two images of nominally the same scene and storing the captured images in DCT-coded format, the first image being taken with the foreground more in focus than the background and the second image being taken with the background more in focus than the foreground. Regions of the first image are assigned as foreground or background according to whether the sum of selected higher order DCT coefficients decreases or increases for the equivalent regions of the second image.