A Study on Image Matting Techniques

Image processing is a wide research area which contains various tasks. Image matting is an image processing tasks. The paper presents a study of various Image Matting approaches. The decomposition of an image into foreground using the opacity and background pixels is known as image matting. Inverse process of image matting is called image composition. It is used for extraction of foreground from an image. It can also produce new images with the help of extracted foreground and different background. It has a variety of applications, starting from image enhancement to extracting useful information from an image.