Detecting and extracting natural snow from videos

  • Yang Shen*
  • , Lizhuang Ma
  • , Hai Liu
  • , Yanxia Bao
  • , Zhihua Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to detect and extract natural snow from video. We detect the snow particle from images or videos by a series of filters, and each of these filters can recognize the features of snow efficiently. We label snow in videos and extract the alpha value of the snow particles by alpha matting. Our method can be applied to many fields such as background reconstruction. Experimental results show that our method is effective.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1124-1130
Number of pages7
JournalInformation Processing Letters
Volume110
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Nov 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Alpha matting
  • Design of algorithm
  • Snow
  • Video

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