Arbitrary Image Cloning

In this paper, an image cloning method called arbitrary cloning is presented, in which image matting and Poisson image editing techniques are applied. The object boundary is extracted through image matting technique while Poisson equation is solved to achieve natural result for seamless cloning. Compared with existing techniques, the proposed approach gains a great deal of advantages: On the one hand, great performance can be reached even in bad conditions. The method will not be affected even when there are many holes in the foreground image and there is complicated color variation in the foreground and background image. On the other hand, the algorithm is very flexible in application that the α matte can be guided by the user input. The examples show that the proposed approach guarantees better output and diverse result.