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Scene background initialization allows the recovery of a clear image without foreground objects from a video sequence, which is generally the first step in many computer vision and video processing applications. The process may be strongly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Zhe Xu , Biao Min , Ray C. C. Cheung

Colorization is the method of converting an image in grayscale to a fully color image. There are multiple methods to do the same. Old school methods used machine learning algorithms and optimization techniques to suggest possible colors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shreyank Narayana Gowda

Supervised and unsupervised homography estimation methods depend on image pairs tailored to specific modalities to achieve high accuracy. However, their performance deteriorates substantially when applied to unseen modalities. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinkun You , Jiaxin Cheng , Jie Zhang , Yicong Zhou

Traditional studies emphasize the significance of context information in improving matting performance. Consequently, deep learning-based matting methods delve into designing pooling or affinity-based context aggregation modules to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Qinglin Liu , Xiaoqian Lv , Quanling Meng , Zonglin Li , Xiangyuan Lan , Shuo Yang , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

We propose a new task, video referring matting, which obtains the alpha matte of a specified instance by inputting a referring caption. We treat the dense prediction task of matting as video generation, leveraging the text-to-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Lehan Yang , Jincen Song , Tianlong Wang , Daiqing Qi , Weili Shi , Yuheng Liu , Sheng Li

This paper presents a method to differentiate the foreground objects from the background of a color image. Firstly a color image of any size is input for processing. The algorithm converts it to a grayscale image. Next we apply canny edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Subhajit Adhikari , Joydeep Kar , Jayati Ghosh Dastidar

Computer vision is increasingly effective at segmenting objects in images and videos; however, scene effects related to the objects -- shadows, reflections, generated smoke, etc -- are typically overlooked. Identifying such scene effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Erika Lu , Forrester Cole , Tali Dekel , Andrew Zisserman , William T. Freeman , Michael Rubinstein

Learning effective deep portrait matting models requires training data of both high quality and large quantity. Neither quality nor quantity can be easily met for portrait matting, however. Since the most accurate ground-truth portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhiyuan Lu , Hao Lu , Hua Huang

LED Virtual Production (VP) uses large LED volumes to render backgrounds in real time, enabling in-camera visual effects but making post-shot changes labor-intensive. We address this with CineMatte, a robust background matting framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuanjian He , Chen Zhang , Fasheng Chen , Jiangbo Cao

Natural image matting estimates the alpha values of unknown regions in the trimap. Recently, deep learning based methods propagate the alpha values from the known regions to unknown regions according to the similarity between them. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Qinglin Liu , Haozhe Xie , Shengping Zhang , Bineng Zhong , Rongrong Ji

Deep image matting methods have achieved increasingly better results on benchmarks (e.g., Composition-1k/alphamatting.com). However, the robustness, including robustness to trimaps and generalization to images from different domains, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yutong Dai , Brian Price , He Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Image matting is an important vision problem. The main stream methods for it combine sampling-based methods and propagation-based methods. In this paper, we deal with the combination with a normalized weighting parameter, which could well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Ping Li , Tingyan Duan , Yongfeng Cao

Capture stages are high-end sources of state-of-the-art recordings for downstream applications in movies, games, and other media. One crucial step in almost all pipelines is matting, i.e., separating captured performances from the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Hannah Dröge , Janelle Pfeifer , Saskia Rabich , Reinhard Klein , Matthias B. Hullin , Markus Plack

How does one adapt a pre-trained visual model to novel downstream tasks without task-specific finetuning or any model modification? Inspired by prompting in NLP, this paper investigates visual prompting: given input-output image example(s)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Amir Bar , Yossi Gandelsman , Trevor Darrell , Amir Globerson , Alexei A. Efros

Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in image and video editing. Due to the highly ill-posed issue, additional inputs, typically user-defined trimaps or scribbles, are usually needed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jiawei Wu , Changqing Zhang , Zuoyong Li , Huazhu Fu , Xi Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou

In this paper, we present a color transfer algorithm to colorize a broad range of gray images without any user intervention. The algorithm uses a machine learning-based approach to automatically colorize grayscale images. The algorithm uses…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Raj Kumar Gupta , Alex Yong-Sang Chia , Deepu Rajan , Huang Zhiyong

Auto white balance (AWB) is applied by camera hardware at capture time to remove the color cast caused by the scene illumination. The vast majority of white-balance algorithms assume a single light source illuminates the scene; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Mahmoud Afifi , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

In this paper, we propose an intuitive method to recover background from multiple images. The implementation consists of three stages: model initialization, model update, and background output. We consider the pixels whose values change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Lei Gao , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

Authoring high-quality digital materials is key to realism in 3D rendering. Previous generative models for materials have been trained exclusively on synthetic data; such data is limited in availability and has a visual gap to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xilong Zhou , Miloš Hašan , Valentin Deschaintre , Paul Guerrero , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Nima Khademi Kalantari

We focus on addressing the challenges in responsible beauty product recommendation, particularly when it involves comparing the product's color with a person's skin tone, such as for foundation and concealer products. To make accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Parnian Afshar , Jenny Yeon , Andriy Levitskyy , Rahul Suresh , Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi