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In the portrait matting, the goal is to predict an alpha matte that identifies the effect of each pixel on the foreground subject. Traditional approaches and most of the existing works utilized an additional input, e.g., trimap, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Dogucan Yaman , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Natural image matting, which separates foreground from background, is a very important intermediate step in recent computer vision algorithms. However, it is severely underconstrained and difficult to solve. State-of-the-art approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Philip G. Lee , Ying Wu

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

We present a method for generating alpha mattes using a limited data source. We pretrain a novel transformerbased model (StyleMatte) on portrait datasets. We utilize this model to provide image-mask pairs for the StyleGAN3-based network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sergej Chicherin , Karen Efremyan

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

Different from conventional image matting, which either requires user-defined scribbles/trimap to extract a specific foreground object or directly extracts all the foreground objects in the image indiscriminately, we introduce a new task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jizhizi Li , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

We resolve the ill-posed alpha matting problem from a completely different perspective. Given an input portrait image, instead of estimating the corresponding alpha matte, we focus on the other end, to subtly enhance this input so that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yangyang Xu Zeyang Zhou , Shengfeng He

Most matting researches resort to advanced semantics to achieve high-quality alpha mattes, and direct low-level features combination is usually explored to complement alpha details. However, we argue that appearance-agnostic integration can…

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

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 refers to extracting human parts from natural images with high quality, including human detail information such as hair, glasses, hat, etc. This technology plays an essential role in image synthesis and visual effects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Qing Song , Wenfeng Sun , Donghan Yang , Mengjie Hu , Chun Liu

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

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

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

Human instance matting aims to estimate an alpha matte for each human instance in an image, which is challenging as it easily fails in complex cases requiring disentangling mingled pixels belonging to multiple instances along hairy and thin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Siyi Jiao , Wenzheng Zeng , Yerong Li , Huayu Zhang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Mike Zheng Shou

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

In this paper, we introduce DiffusionMat, a novel image matting framework that employs a diffusion model for the transition from coarse to refined alpha mattes. Diverging from conventional methods that utilize trimaps merely as loose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yangyang Xu , Shengfeng He , Wenqi Shao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

Recent approaches attempt to adapt powerful interactive segmentation models, such as SAM, to interactive matting and fine-tune the models based on synthetic matting datasets. However, models trained on synthetic data fail to generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ruihao Xia , Yu Liang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Qianru Sun , Yang Tang , Bo Li , Pan Zhou

Human instance matting aims to estimate an alpha matte for each human instance in an image, which is extremely challenging and has rarely been studied so far. Despite some efforts to use instance segmentation to generate a trimap for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qinglin Liu , Shengping Zhang , Quanling Meng , Bineng Zhong , Peiqiang Liu , Hongxun Yao

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