Vision-Jtssistod imago Editing Eric N. Mortensen BrighamYoungUniversity V / h a t Is It? When I think of image editing, packages such as Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro come to mind. These packages are used to edit. transform or manipulate, typically with extensive user guidance, one o r m o r e images t o produce a d e s i r e d result. Tasks such as s e l e c t i o n , matting, blending, warping, morphing, etc. are often tedious and time consuming.Visionassisted editing can lighten the burden, whether the goal is a simple cut and paste composition or a major special effect for a movie (see Doug Roble's article in this issue). Thus, this article focuses on computer vision techniques that reduce (often significantly) the time and effort involved in editing images and video. The goal of vision systems is to d e t e c t edges, regions, shapes, surface features, lighting p r o p e r t i e s , 3D geometry, etc. Host currently available image editing tools and filters utilize low-level, 2D geometric o r image processing operations that manipulate pixels. However, vision techniques extract
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