Patents by Inventor Carsten Rother

Carsten Rother has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20050271273
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to provide more efficient and improved extraction of a portion of a scene without requiring excessive user interaction. More particularly, the extraction may be achieved by using iterated graph cuts. In an implementation, a method includes segmenting an image into a foreground portion and a background portion (e.g., where an object or desired portion to be extracted is present in the foreground portion). The method determines the properties corresponding to the foreground and background portions of the image. Distributions may be utilized to model the foreground and background properties. The properties may be color in one implementation and the distributions may be a Gaussian Mixture Model in another implementation. The foreground and background properties are updated based on the portions. And, the foreground and background portions are updated based on the updated foreground and background properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Blake, Carsten Rother, Padmanabhan Anandan