Interactive Composition of Seamless and Color-matched Images of Overlapping Objects

Abstract

〈Summary〉 We propose an image composition method which seamlessly matches the color of a source image region to that of a target image region that is partially occluded by foreground objects. Previous methods assume that a target image region has small color variation, and therefore it is difficult to paste source image regions so that they overlap foreground objects in a target image, as this induces color bleeding from the foreground objects. To overcome this difficulty, we propose to perform color matching only from the background region by excluding the foreground objects. We show how we compose objects from a source image both behind and in front of objects in a target image, and we demonstrate that visually pleasing seamless composition can be achieved.