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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

The current state of the art alpha matting methods mainly rely on the trimap as the secondary and only guidance to estimate alpha. This paper investigates the effects of utilising the background information as well as trimap in the process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Hossein Javidnia , François Pitié

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

Image matting is a long-standing problem in computer graphics and vision, mostly identified as the accurate estimation of the foreground in input images. We argue that the foreground objects can be represented by different-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Yu Qiao , Yuhao Liu , Qiang Zhu , Xin Yang , Yuxin Wang , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei

An important step of many image editing tasks is to extract specific objects from an image in order to place them in a scene of a movie or compose them onto another background. Alpha matting describes the problem of separating the objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Thomas Germer , Tobias Uelwer , Stefan Conrad , Stefan Harmeling

Over the last few years, deep learning based approaches have achieved outstanding improvements in natural image matting. However, there are still two drawbacks that impede the widespread application of image matting: the reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yijie Zhong , Bo Li , Lv Tang , Hao Tang , Shouhong Ding

Image matting refers to predicting the alpha values of unknown foreground areas from natural images. Prior methods have focused on propagating alpha values from known to unknown regions. However, not all natural images have a specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo

Image matting is an ill-posed problem that usually requires additional user input, such as trimaps or scribbles. Drawing a fne trimap requires a large amount of user effort, while using scribbles can hardly obtain satisfactory alpha mattes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xin Yang , Yu Qiao , Shaozhe Chen , Shengfeng He , Baocai Yin , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei , Rynson W. H. Lau

Existing portrait matting methods either require auxiliary inputs that are costly to obtain or involve multiple stages that are computationally expensive, making them less suitable for real-time applications. In this work, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Zhanghan Ke , Jiayu Sun , Kaican Li , Qiong Yan , Rynson W. H. Lau

We propose a novel neural-network-based method to perform matting of videos depicting people that does not require additional user input such as trimaps. Our architecture achieves temporal stability of the resulting alpha mattes by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ivan Molodetskikh , Mikhail Erofeev , Andrey Moskalenko , Dmitry Vatolin

The portrait matting task aims to extract an alpha matte with complete semantics and finely-detailed contours. In comparison to CNN-based approaches, transformers with self-attention module have a better capacity to capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zitao Wang , Qiguang Miao , Peipei Zhao , Yue Xi

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

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

In this paper, we propose an image matting framework called Salient Image Matting to estimate the per-pixel opacity value of the most salient foreground in an image. To deal with a large amount of semantic diversity in images, a trimap is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rahul Deora , Rishab Sharma , Dinesh Samuel Sathia Raj

In natural image matting, the goal is to estimate the opacity of the foreground object in the image. This opacity controls the way the foreground and background is blended in transparent regions. In recent years, advances in deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Sebastian Lutz , Aljosa Smolic

We introduce in-context matting, a novel task setting of image matting. Given a reference image of a certain foreground and guided priors such as points, scribbles, and masks, in-context matting enables automatic alpha estimation on a batch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 He Guo , Zixuan Ye , Zhiguo Cao , Hao Lu

Sampling-based alpha matting methods have traditionally followed the compositing equation to estimate the alpha value at a pixel from a pair of foreground (F) and background (B) samples. The (F,B) pair that produces the least reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Jubin Johnson , Hisham Cholakkal , Deepu Rajan

Over the last few years, deep learning based approaches have achieved outstanding improvements in natural image matting. Many of these methods can generate visually plausible alpha estimations, but typically yield blurry structures or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yaoyi Li , Hongtao Lu

Face filters have become a key element of short-form video content, enabling a wide array of visual effects such as stylization and face swapping. However, their performance often degrades in the presence of occlusions, where objects like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Hyebin Cho , Jaehyup Lee

The labelling difficulty has been a longstanding problem in deep image matting. To escape from fine labels, this work explores using rough annotations such as trimaps coarsely indicating the foreground/background as supervision. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Wenze Liu , Zixuan Ye , Hao Lu , Zhiguo Cao , Xiangyu Yue