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Recently, trimap-free methods have drawn increasing attention in human video matting due to their promising performance. Nevertheless, these methods still suffer from the lack of deterministic foreground-background cues, which impairs their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Huayu Zhang , Dongyue Wu , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao

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

Image matting aims to predict alpha values of elaborate uncertainty areas of natural images, like hairs, smoke, and spider web. However, existing methods perform poorly when faced with highly transparent foreground objects due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo

Generalizing video matting models to real-world videos remains a significant challenge due to the scarcity of labeled data. To address this, we present Video Mask-to-Matte Model (VideoMaMa) that converts coarse segmentation masks into pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sangbeom Lim , Seoung Wug Oh , Jiahui Huang , Heeji Yoon , Seungryong Kim , Joon-Young Lee

Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in many image editing applications. Deep learning approaches have made significant progress by adapting the encoder-decoder architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Marco Forte , François Pitié

Image matting requires high-quality pixel-level human annotations to support the training of a deep model in recent literature. Whereas such annotation is costly and hard to scale, significantly holding back the development of the research.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yanda Li , Zilong Huang , Gang Yu , Ling Chen , Yunchao Wei , Jianbo Jiao

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

Deep learning-based alpha matting showed tremendous improvements in recent years, yet, feature film production studios still rely on classical chroma keying including costly post-production steps. This perceived discrepancy can be explained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hendrik Hachmann , Bodo Rosenhahn

Recent vision transformer based video models mostly follow the ``image pre-training then finetuning" paradigm and have achieved great success on multiple video benchmarks. However, full finetuning such a video model could be computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Taojiannan Yang , Yi Zhu , Yusheng Xie , Aston Zhang , Chen Chen , Mu Li

Recent image matting studies are developing towards proposing trimap-free or interactive methods for complete complex image matting tasks. Although avoiding the extensive labors of trimap annotation, existing methods still suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Dinghao Yang , Bin Wang , Weijia Li , Yiqi Lin , Conghui He

Semantic human matting aims to estimate the per-pixel opacity of the foreground human regions. It is quite challenging and usually requires user interactive trimaps and plenty of high quality annotated data. Annotating such kind of data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Jinlin Liu , Yuan Yao , Wendi Hou , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie , Changshui Zhang , Xian-sheng Hua

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

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

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

Conventional video matting outputs one alpha matte for all instances appearing in a video frame so that individual instances are not distinguished. While video instance segmentation provides time-consistent instance masks, results are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jiachen Li , Roberto Henschel , Vidit Goel , Marianna Ohanyan , Shant Navasardyan , Humphrey Shi

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 matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ning Xu , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

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

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

We present a method for harmonizing the lighting of a foreground video to match a target background scene, adjusting shadows, color tone, and illumination intensity (relightful harmonization). Unlike images, acquiring labeled data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jun Myeong Choi , Jae Shin Yoon , Luchao Qi , Roni Sengupta , Joon-Young Lee