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Decompose - Background Removal

Posted: 2011-08-01T08:58:19-07:00
by dognose
http://itunes.apple.com/app/decompose/id405996941

Wonder how this app does it. It'd be really nice to automatically remove the background.

Re: Decompose - Background Removal

Posted: 2011-08-01T09:11:35-07:00
by fmw42
read the comments on your link:

"VERY BAD

by Flyingduck
Please don't buy this. It is completely useless. I tried it on the most simple images. Don't waste your money!!!

Wow, Needs Lots of Work! :-(

by Captain34
I've had this program for sometime and so far its just wasting harddrive space.
You have to be using almost a perfectly blanced photo just to get the tools to act right, then when your target area is removed the"

Re: Decompose - Background Removal

Posted: 2011-08-01T09:39:14-07:00
by Bonzo
In Gimp you have background/forground extract tool and I think Photoshop has it as well as some other programs.

The Gimp version is based on "Siox" http://www.siox.org/

Re: Decompose - Background Removal

Posted: 2011-08-02T06:41:04-07:00
by dognose
The Siox library is pretty impressive. Any way to get that in IM or command line?

Re: Decompose - Background Removal

Posted: 2011-08-02T07:03:32-07:00
by anthony
The reviews don't give me the impression of it being 'impressive', though I would like to study the algorithm more.

In IM you can use any technique you can dream up. Some methods have been exampled
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/masking/#bg_remove

Re: Decompose - Background Removal

Posted: 2011-08-02T10:04:15-07:00
by fmw42
I tried it on ImageJ and got terrible results and extremely slow processing times. It was pretty much useless (at least the ImageJ implementation).