Effective Re-texturing with Interactive Object Extracting

Re-texturing is an image editing method which changes the material appearance of an object. In this paper, a new method for re-texturing by extracting object interactively from an image is presented. Rather than relying on tedium of manual object selection, a new re-texturing strategy which combines image matting is proposed. Given images or photographs with object to be re-textured, only several scribbles which indicate the foreground object and the background image are needed. The alpha matte outlined the object is automatically produced by optimizing an improved cost function of image matting. According to the alpha matte, re-textured result can be obtained by selection of new texture. Comparing with related work, the method demonstrated in this paper requires considerably less manual effort and can obtain satisfied results.