At Microsoft Research in Cambridge we are developing new machine vision algorithms for intelligent image and video editing and browsing. Our technology provides tools for: accurate interactive cut-out, high-quality object cut and paste, easy object removal and image restoration, seamless object insertion.

Unwrap Mosaic: A new representation for video editing

Bayesian Color Constancy: revisited

AutoCollage (formally Digital Tapestry): Automatic Collage of a Photo Collection

Object-driven Image browsing: Cosegmenting Image Pairs by Matching Global Histograms

GrabCut: Easy object cut-and-paste

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Blender: Seamless object insertion

 JetStream: Interactive object cut-out

Patchworks: Object removal and automatic region filling

Scientific publications

1. A. Rav-Acha, P. Kohli, A. W. Fitzgibbon, C. Rother, Unwrap Mosaics: A new representation for video editing, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2008)
2. P. V. Gehler, C. Rother, A. Blake, T. Minka, T. Sharp, Bayesian Color Constancy Revisited, CVPR 2008
3. C. Rhemann, C. Rother, A. Rav-Acha, T. Sharp, High Resolution Matting via Interactive Trimap Segmentation, CVPR 2008
4. S. Vicente, V. Kolmogorov, C. Rother, Graph cut based image segmentation with connectivity priors, CVPR 2008
5. C. Rother, L. Bordeaux, Y. Hamadi, A. Blake, AutoCollage, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), August 2006
6. C. Rother, V. Kolmogorov, T. Minka, A. Blake, Cosegmentation of Image Pairs by Histogram Matching - Incorporating a Global Constraint into MRFs, CVPR 2006, New York, USA, June 2006, PDF VERSION; Detailed Technical Report
7. C. Rother, S. Kumar, V. Kolmogorov, A. Blake. Digital Tapestry, 2005 San Diego, CA, US Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
8. C. Rother, V. Kolmogorov, A. Blake. GrabCut: Interactive Foreground Extraction using Iterated Graph Cuts. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH'04), 2004
9. A. Blake, C. Rother, M. Brown, P. Perez, and P. Torr. Interactive image segmentation using an adaptive GMMRF model. Proc. Eur. Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV (2004).
10. P. Pérez, M. Gangnet, and A. Blake. Poisson image editing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH'03), 2(3):313-318.
11. A. Criminisi, P. Pérez, and K. Toyama. Object removal by exemplar-based inpainting. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, Madison, Wisconsin, 2003.
12. P. Pérez, M. Gangnet, and A. Blake. PatchWorks: Example-Based Region Tiling for Image Editing. Microsoft Research Report TR-2004-04, (2004).
13. P. Pérez, A. Blake, and M. Gangnet. JetStream: Probabilistic contour extraction with particles. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), II:524-531, 2001