there are two images
alt text http://bbs.shoucangshidai.com/attachments/month_1001/1001211535bd7a644e95187acd.jpg alt text http://bbs.shoucangshidai.com/attachments/month_1001/10012115357cfe13c148d3d8da.jpg one is background image another one is a person's photo with the same background ,same size,what i want to do is remove the second image's background and distill the person's profile only. the common method is subtract first image from the second one,but my problem is if the color of person's wear is similar to the background. the result of subtract is awful. i can not get whole people's profile. who have good idea to remove the background give me some advice. thank you in advance.
Select the picture that you want to remove the background from. On the toolbar, select Picture Format > Remove Background, or Format > Remove Background. If you don't see Remove Background, make sure you have selected a picture.
If you have a good estimate of the image background, subtracting it from the image with the person is a good first step. But it is only the first step. After that, you have to segment the image, i.e. you have to partition the image into "background" and "foreground" pixels, with constraints like these:
If you are mathematically inclined, these constraints can be modeled perfectly with the Mumford-Shah functional. See here for more information.
But you can probably adapt other segmentation algorithms to the problem.
If you want a fast and simple (but not perfect) version, you could try this:
You now have an outline polygon that touches the visible person-background border and continues smoothly where the border is not visible or has low contrast. Look up "Snakes" (e.g. here) for more information.
Low-pass filter (blur) the images before you subtract them. Then use that difference signal as a mask to select the pixels of interest. A wide-enough filter will ignore the too-small (high-frequency) features that end up carving out "awful" regions inside your object of interest. It'll also reduce the highlighting of pixel-level noise and misalignment (the highest-frequency information).
In addition, if you have more than two frames, introducing some time hysteresis will let you form more stable regions of interest over time too.
One technique that I think is common is to use a mixture model. Grab a number of background frames and for each pixel build a mixture model for its color.
When you apply a frame with the person in it you will get some probability that the color is foreground or background, given the probability densities in the mixture model for each pixel.
After you have P(pixel is foreground) and P(pixel is background) you could just threshold the probability images.
Another possibility is to use the probabilities as inputs in some more clever segmentation algorithm. One example is graph cuts which I have noticed works quite well.
However, if the person is wearing clothes that are visually indistguishable from the background obviously none of the methods described above would work. You'd either have to get another sensor (like IR or UV) or have a quite elaborate "person model" which could "add" the legs in the right position if it finds what it thinks is a torso and head.
Good luck with the project!
Background vs Foreground detection is very subjective. The application scenario defines background or foreground. However in the application you detail, I guess you are implicitly saying that the person is the foreground. Using the above assumption, what you seek is a person detection algorithm. A possible solution is:
- Run a haar feature detector+ boosted cascade of weak classifiers (see the opencv wiki for details)
- Compute inter-frame motion (differences)
- If there is a +ve face detection for a frame, cluster motion pixels around the face (kNN algorithm)
voila... you should have a simple person detector.
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