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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

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

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

Context can strongly affect object representations, sometimes leading to undesired biases, particularly when objects appear in out-of-distribution backgrounds at inference. At the same time, many object-centric tasks require to leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ananthu Aniraj , Cassio F. Dantas , Dino Ienco , Diego Marcos

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

The recent Segment Anything Models (SAMs) have emerged as foundational visual models for general interactive segmentation. Despite demonstrating robust generalization abilities, they still suffer performance degradations in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

Many real-world applications, such as interactive photo retouching, artistic content creation, and product design, require flexible and iterative image editing. However, existing image editing methods primarily focus on achieving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zijun Zhou , Yingying Deng , Xiangyu He , Weiming Dong , Fan Tang

3D scene reconstruction from 2D images has been a long-standing task. Instead of estimating per-frame depth maps and fusing them in 3D, recent research leverages the neural implicit surface as a unified representation for 3D reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinyi Yu , Liqin Lu , Jintao Rong , Guangkai Xu , Linlin Ou

Image matting is a key technique for image and video editing and composition. Conventionally, deep learning approaches take the whole input image and an associated trimap to infer the alpha matte using convolutional neural networks. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Haichao Yu , Ning Xu , Zilong Huang , Yuqian Zhou , Humphrey Shi

Deep neural networks are capable of learning powerful representations to tackle complex vision tasks but expose undesirable properties like the over-fitting issue. To this end, regularization techniques like image augmentation are necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Haohang Xu , Shuangrui Ding , Manqi Zhao , Dongsheng Jiang

Deep image matting methods have achieved increasingly better results on benchmarks (e.g., Composition-1k/alphamatting.com). However, the robustness, including robustness to trimaps and generalization to images from different domains, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yutong Dai , Brian Price , He Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Image segmentation is about grouping pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership, where each choice of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov , Rohit Girdhar

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

We propose Mask Guided (MG) Matting, a robust matting framework that takes a general coarse mask as guidance. MG Matting leverages a network (PRN) design which encourages the matting model to provide self-guidance to progressively refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Qihang Yu , Jianming Zhang , He Zhang , Yilin Wang , Zhe Lin , Ning Xu , Yutong Bai , Alan Yuille

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

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

Due to their highly structured characteristics, faces are easier to recover than natural scenes for blind image super-resolution. Therefore, we can extract the degradation representation of an image from the low-quality and recovered face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhicun Yin , Ming Liu , Xiaoming Li , Hui Yang , Longan Xiao , Wangmeng Zuo

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

We propose a novel implicit feature refinement module for high-quality instance segmentation. Existing image/video instance segmentation methods rely on explicitly stacked convolutions to refine instance features before the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Lufan Ma , Tiancai Wang , Bin Dong , Jiangpeng Yan , Xiu Li , Xiangyu Zhang

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