Title
Understanding and improving the realism of image composites
Abstract
Compositing is one of the most commonly performed operations in computer graphics. A realistic composite requires adjusting the appearance of the foreground and background so that they appear compatible; unfortunately, this task is challenging and poorly understood. We use statistical and visual perception experiments to study the realism of image composites. First, we evaluate a number of standard 2D image statistical measures, and identify those that are most significant in determining the realism of a composite. Then, we perform a human subjects experiment to determine how the changes in these key statistics influence human judgements of composite realism. Finally, we describe a data-driven algorithm that automatically adjusts these statistical measures in a foreground to make it more compatible with its background in a composite. We show a number of compositing results, and evaluate the performance of both our algorithm and previous work with a human subjects study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2185520.2185580
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
image statistical measure,realistic composite,composite realism,human subjects study,compositing result,statistical measure,image composite,human subjects experiment,data-driven algorithm,human judgement
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0730-0301
26
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.93
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Su Xue1493.82
Aseem Agarwala23125178.39
Julie Dorsey32535182.80
Holly Rushmeier42294334.25