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		jcampbell1 on March 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Image Background Removal This might be of interest, to people looking for a more human guided approach, where rough edges are defined by a human: http://www.alphamatting.com/

sjtrny on March 4, 2014 [–]

Came here to post the same thing (current researcher in this field). Although you could actually automate the labelling by building a classifier for the type of object you wish to extract.

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