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Image matting plays an important role in image and video editing. However, the formulation of image matting is inherently ill-posed. Traditional methods usually employ interaction to deal with the image matting problem with trimaps and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Bingke Zhu , Yingying Chen , Jinqiao Wang , Si Liu , Bo Zhang , Ming Tang

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

Long video generation remains a challenging and compelling topic in computer vision. Diffusion based models, among the various approaches to video generation, have achieved state of the art quality with their iterative denoising procedures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Siyang Zhang , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

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

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

Recently, plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance on various computer vision tasks, thanks to their strong modeling capacity and large-scale pretraining. However, they have not yet conquered the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Shusheng Yang , Baoyuan Wang

Building video-language foundation models is costly and difficult due to the redundant nature of video data and the lack of high-quality video-language datasets. In this paper, we propose an efficient framework to harvest video foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yizhuo Li , Kunchang Li , Yinan He , Yi Wang , Yali Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

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

Video inpainting aims to fill spatio-temporal holes with plausible content in a video. Despite tremendous progress of deep neural networks for image inpainting, it is challenging to extend these methods to the video domain due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Dahun Kim , Sanghyun Woo , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

This work presents an unsupervised learning based approach to the ubiquitous computer vision problem of image matching. We start from the insight that the problem of frame-interpolation implicitly solves for inter-frame correspondences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Gucan Long , Laurent Kneip , Jose M. Alvarez , Hongdong Li

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

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

Extracting accurate foreground objects from a scene is an essential step for many video applications. Traditional background subtraction algorithms can generate coarse estimates, but generating high quality masks requires professional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xiran Wang , Jason Juang , Stanley H. Chan

Natural image matting is a fundamental and challenging computer vision task. It has many applications in image editing and composition. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have achieved great improvements in image matting. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Guowei Chen , Yi Liu , Jian Wang , Juncai Peng , Yuying Hao , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Zhiliang Yu , Yuning Du , Qingqing Dang , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu

Video motion magnification is a technique to capture and amplify subtle motion in a video that is invisible to the naked eye. The deep learning-based prior work successfully demonstrates the modelling of the motion magnification problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hyunwoo Ha , Oh Hyun-Bin , Kim Jun-Seong , Kwon Byung-Ki , Kim Sung-Bin , Linh-Tam Tran , Ji-Yun Kim , Sung-Ho Bae , Tae-Hyun Oh

Despite significant advancements in image matting, existing models heavily depend on manually-drawn trimaps for accurate results in natural image scenarios. However, the process of obtaining trimaps is time-consuming, lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Chenyi Zhang , Yihan Hu , Henghui Ding , Humphrey Shi , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

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 address an essential problem in computer vision, that of unsupervised object segmentation in video, where a main object of interest in a video sequence should be automatically separated from its background. An efficient solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Emanuela Haller , Marius Leordeanu

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

In recent years, advances in Artificial Intelligence have significantly impacted computer science, particularly in the field of computer vision, enabling solutions to complex problems such as video frame prediction. Video frame prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jose M. Sánchez Velázquez , Mingbo Cai , Andrew Coney , Álvaro J. García- Tejedor , Alberto Nogales