has the granting of your recent patent with Adobe effectively killed open source image matting?

MarcoForte / FBA_Matting

Official repository for the paper F, B, Alpha Matting

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has the granting of your recent patent with Adobe effectively killed open source image matting? #45

Closed 21pl closed 3 years ago

21pl commented 3 years ago

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11004208B2/en

patent seems to cover the idea of user interaction to create binary matte -> trimap -> final matte and every variation of that.

ilyaskhanbey commented 3 years ago

interactive matting hmmm, nany webservice are using interactive matting such https://clippingmagic.com/

MarcoForte commented 3 years ago

Hi thank you for your interest in my work. I am not a lawyer, and no longer an employee of Adobe so unfortunately I cannot give you a legal answer. Please contact representatives at Adobe for a more satisfying definitive answer.

21pl commented 3 years ago

sorry - didn't mean to come off as so accusatory. Amazing work so far. Really looking forward to what you come up with next.