Decompose - Background Removal

[dognose]

http://itunes.apple.com/app/decompose/id405996941

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

[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"

[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/

[dognose]

The Siox library is pretty impressive. Any way to get that in IM or command line?

[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

[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).