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This paper proposes a novel deep learning-based video object matting method that can achieve temporally coherent matting results. Its key component is an attention-based temporal aggregation module that maximizes image matting networks'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Yunke Zhang , Chi Wang , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Xian-sheng Hua , Hujun Bao , Qixing Huang , Weiwei Xu

Attention mechanisms have recently been introduced in deep learning for various tasks in natural language processing and computer vision. But despite their popularity, the "correctness" of the implicitly-learned attention maps has only been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chenxi Liu , Junhua Mao , Fei Sha , Alan Yuille

Most automatic matting methods try to separate the salient foreground from the background. However, the insufficient quantity and subjective bias of the current existing matting datasets make it difficult to fully explore the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Bo Xu , Jiake Xie , Han Huang , Ziwen Li , Cheng Lu , Yong Tang , Yandong Guo

Image inpainting is an ill-posed problem to recover missing or damaged image content based on incomplete images with masks. Previous works usually predict the auxiliary structures (e.g., edges, segmentation and contours) to help fill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yongsheng Yu , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Tiejian Luo

Most convolutional network (CNN)-based inpainting methods adopt standard convolution to indistinguishably treat valid pixels and holes, making them limited in handling irregular holes and more likely to generate inpainting results with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Chaohao Xie , Shaohui Liu , Chao Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Wangmeng Zuo , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen , Errui Ding

Natural image matting is a fundamental and challenging computer vision task. Conventionally, the problem is formulated as an underconstrained problem. Since the problem is ill-posed, further assumptions on the data distribution are required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Rui Wang , Jun Xie , Jiacheng Han , Dezhen Qi

Image matting is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Most existing matting methods leverage a user-supplied trimap as an auxiliary input to produce good alpha matte. However, obtaining high-quality trimap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tianyi Wei , Dongdong Chen , Wenbo Zhou , Jing Liao , Hanqing Zhao , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Natural image matting separates the foreground from background in fractional occupancy which can be caused by highly transparent objects, complex foreground (e.g., net or tree), and/or objects containing very fine details (e.g., hairs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yanan Sun , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Improper exposure often leads to severe loss of details, color distortion, and reduced contrast. Exposure correction still faces two critical challenges: (1) the ignorance of object-wise regional semantic information causes the color shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Puzhen Wu , Han Weng , Quan Zheng , Yi Zhan , Hewei Wang , Yiming Li , Jiahui Han , Rui Xu

Real-world image matting is essential for applications in content creation and augmented reality. However, it remains challenging due to the complex nature of scenes and the scarcity of high-quality datasets. To address these limitations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Rui Liu

Alpha matting aims to estimate the translucency of an object in a given image. The resulting alpha matte describes pixel-wise to what amount foreground and background colors contribute to the color of the composite image. While most methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Thomas Germer , Tobias Uelwer , Stefan Conrad , Stefan Harmeling

Natural image matting algorithms aim to predict the transparency map (alpha-matte) with the trimap guidance. However, the production of trimap often requires significant labor, which limits the widespread application of matting algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Lang Ye , Wenyu Liu

The latest deep learning-based approaches have shown promising results for the challenging task of inpainting missing regions of an image. However, the existing methods often generate contents with blurry textures and distorted structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Hongyu Liu , Bin Jiang , Yi Xiao , Chao Yang

The new alternative is to use deep learning to inpaint any image by utilizing image classification and computer vision techniques. In general, image inpainting is a task of recreating or reconstructing any broken image which could be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Narayana Darapaneni , Vaibhav Kherde , Kameswara Rao , Deepali Nikam , Swanand Katdare , Anima Shukla , Anagha Lomate , Anwesh Reddy Paduri

Recent deep learning based approaches have shown promising results for the challenging task of inpainting large missing regions in an image. These methods can generate visually plausible image structures and textures, but often create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jiahui Yu , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Xiaohui Shen , Xin Lu , Thomas S. Huang

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved competitive performance in salient object detection, in which how to learn effective and comprehensive features plays a critical role. Most of the previous works mainly adopted multiple level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zuyao Chen , Qianqian Xu , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

The captured images under low light conditions often suffer insufficient brightness and notorious noise. Hence, low-light image enhancement is a key challenging task in computer vision. A variety of methods have been proposed for this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-22 Cheng Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Yu zhu , Xianjun Li , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Image matting is generally modeled as a space transform from the color space to the alpha space. By estimating the alpha factor of the model, the foreground of an image can be extracted. However, there is some dimensional information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xuelong Li , Kang Liu , Yongsheng Dong , Dacheng Tao

This prospective study proposes CoMatch, a novel semi-dense image matcher with dynamic covisibility awareness and bilateral subpixel accuracy. Firstly, observing that modeling context interaction over the entire coarse feature map elicits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zizhuo Li , Yifan Lu , Linfeng Tang , Shihua Zhang , Jiayi Ma

This paper reviews recent deep-learning-based matting research and conceives our wider and higher motivation for image matting. Many approaches achieve alpha mattes with complex encoders to extract robust semantics, then resort to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yu Qiao , Ziqi Wei , Yuhao Liu , Yuxin Wang , Dongsheng Zhou , Qiang Zhang , Xin Yang