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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

Image forgery is a topic that has been studied for many years. Before the breakthrough of deep learning, forged images were detected using handcrafted features that did not require training. These traditional methods failed to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Eren Tahir , Mert Bal

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

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

Photo retouching enables photographers to invoke dramatic visual impressions by artistically enhancing their photos through stylistic color and tone adjustments. However, it is also a time-consuming and challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Zhicheng Yan , Hao Zhang , Baoyuan Wang , Sylvain Paris , Yizhou Yu

Natural image matting aims to estimate the alpha matte of the foreground from a given image. Various approaches have been explored to address this problem, such as interactive matting methods that use guidance such as click or trimap, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Qinglin Liu , Xiaoqian Lv , Wei Yu , Changyong Guo , Shengping Zhang

Human matting, high quality extraction of humans from natural images, is crucial for a wide variety of applications. Since the matting problem is severely under-constrained, most previous methods require user interactions to take user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Quan Chen , Tiezheng Ge , Yanyu Xu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Xinxin Yang , Kun Gai

Image super-resolution technology is the process of obtaining high-resolution images from one or more low-resolution images. With the development of deep learning, image super-resolution technology based on deep learning method is emerging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Fangyuan Zhu

This paper introduces an innovative approach for image matting that redefines the traditional regression-based task as a generative modeling challenge. Our method harnesses the capabilities of latent diffusion models, enriched with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhixiang Wang , Baiang Li , Jian Wang , Yu-Lun Liu , Jinwei Gu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Generating a description of an image is called image captioning. Image captioning requires to recognize the important objects, their attributes and their relationships in an image. It also needs to generate syntactically and semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Md. Zakir Hossain , Ferdous Sohel , Mohd Fairuz Shiratuddin , Hamid Laga

As a common image editing operation, image composition (object insertion) aims to combine the foreground from one image and another background image, to produce a composite image. However, there are many issues that could make the composite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Li Niu , Wenyan Cong , Liu Liu , Yan Hong , Bo Zhang , Jing Liang , Liqing Zhang

Image compositing is a task of combining regions from different images to compose a new image. A common use case is background replacement of portrait images. To obtain high quality composites, professionals typically manually perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 He Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Federico Perazzi , Zhe Lin , Vishal M. Patel

Alpha matting is widely used in video conferencing as well as in movies, television, and social media sites. Deep learning approaches to the matte extraction problem are well suited to video conferencing due to the consistent subject matter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Sharif Elcott , J. P. Lewis , Nori Kanazawa , Christoph Bregler

Deep learning has been achieving decent performance in computer vision requiring a large volume of images, however, collecting images is expensive and difficult in many scenarios. To alleviate this issue, many image augmentation algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mingle Xu , Sook Yoon , Alvaro Fuentes , Dong Sun Park

Natural image matting aims to precisely separate foreground objects from background using alpha matte. Fully automatic natural image matting without external annotation is challenging. Well-performed matting methods usually require accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yuhongze Zhou , Liguang Zhou , Tin Lun Lam , Yangsheng Xu

Image manipulation detection algorithms designed to identify local anomalies often rely on the manipulated regions being ``sufficiently'' different from the rest of the non-tampered regions in the image. However, such anomalies might not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Rosaura G. VidalMata , Priscila Saboia , Daniel Moreira , Grant Jensen , Jason Schlessman , Walter J. Scheirer

Image matting is an ill-posed problem that aims to estimate the opacity of foreground pixels in an image. However, most existing deep learning-based methods still suffer from the coarse-grained details. In general, these algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yuhao Liu , Jiake Xie , Yu Qiao , Yong Tang and , Xin Yang

Image captioning is a research area of immense importance, aiming to generate natural language descriptions for visual content in the form of still images. The advent of deep learning and more recently vision-language pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

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

Recently, significant progress has been achieved in deep image matting. Most of the classical image matting methods are time-consuming and require an ideal trimap which is difficult to attain in practice. A high efficient image matting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Yaoyi Li , Jianfu Zhang , Weijie Zhao , Hongtao Lu