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Volume: 35 | Article ID: IMAGE-273
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Depth assisted portrait video background blurring
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2023.35.7.IMAGE-273  Published OnlineJanuary 2023
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Video conferencing usage dramatically increased during the pandemic and is expected to remain high in hybrid work. One of the key aspects of video experience is background blur or background replacement, which relies on good quality portrait segmentation in each frame. Software and hardware manufacturers have worked together to utilize depth sensor to improve the process. Existing solutions have incorporated depth map into post processing to generate a more natural blurring effect. In this paper, we propose to collect background features with the help of depth map to improve the segmentation result from the RGB image. Our results show significant improvements over methods using RGB based networks and runs faster than model-based background feature collection models.

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Yezhi Shen, Weichen Xu, Qian Lin, Jan P. Allebach, Fengqing Zhu, "Depth assisted portrait video background blurringin Electronic Imaging,  2023,  pp 273-1 - 273-6,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2023.35.7.IMAGE-273

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