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Occlusions are very common in face images in the wild, leading to the degraded performance of face-related tasks. Although much effort has been devoted to removing occlusions from face images, the varying shapes and textures of occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Xiangnan Yin , Di Huang , Zehua Fu , Yunhong Wang , Liming Chen

Generative models such as StyleGAN2 and Stable Diffusion have achieved state-of-the-art performance in computer vision tasks such as image synthesis, inpainting, and de-noising. However, current generative models for face inpainting often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Saman Motamed , Jianjin Xu , Chen Henry Wu , Fernando De la Torre

Image matching is a fundamental and critical task in various visual applications, such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and image retrieval, which require accurate pose estimation. However, most existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Miao Fan , Mingrui Chen , Chen Hu , Shuchang Zhou

Although person re-identification has made impressive progress, occlusion caused by obstacles remains an unsettled issue in real applications. The difficulty lies in the mismatch between incomplete occluded samples and holistic identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lei Tan , Yingshi Luan , Pincong Zou , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

We present a novel approach for the detection of deepfake videos using a pair of vision transformers pre-trained by a self-supervised masked autoencoding setup. Our method consists of two distinct components, one of which focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Sayantan Das , Mojtaba Kolahdouzi , Levent Özparlak , Will Hickie , Ali Etemad

Interactive portrait matting refers to extracting the soft portrait from a given image that best meets the user's intent through their inputs. Existing methods often underperform in complex scenarios, mainly due to three factors. (1) Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Siyi Jiao , Wenzheng Zeng , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Face recognition systems have to deal with large variabilities (such as different poses, illuminations, and expressions) that might lead to incorrect matching decisions. These variabilities can be measured in terms of face image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Philipp Terhörst , Malte Ihlefeld , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Kiran Raja , Arjan Kuijper

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

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

Amodal segmentation aims to predict segmentation masks for both the visible and occluded regions of an object. Most existing works formulate this as a supervised learning problem, requiring manually annotated amodal masks or synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jae Joong Lee , Bedrich Benes , Raymond A. Yeh

Face detection in unrestricted conditions has been a trouble for years due to various expressions, brightness, and coloration fringing. Recent studies show that deep learning knowledge of strategies can acquire spectacular performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Sameer Aqib Hashmi

Panoramic images can broaden the Field of View (FoV), occlusion-aware prediction can deepen the understanding of the scene, and domain adaptation can transfer across viewing domains. In this work, we introduce a novel task, Occlusion-Aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yihong Cao , Jiaming Zhang , Hao Shi , Kunyu Peng , Yuhongxuan Zhang , Hui Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Kailun Yang

This study demonstrates a novel approach to facial camouflage that combines targeted cosmetic perturbations and alpha transparency layer manipulation to evade modern facial recognition systems. Unlike previous methods -- such as CV dazzle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 David Noever , Forrest McKee

Most previous image matting methods require a roughly-specificed trimap as input, and estimate fractional alpha values for all pixels that are in the unknown region of the trimap. In this paper, we argue that directly estimating the alpha…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Shaofan Cai , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Haoqiang Fan , Haibin Huang , Jiangyu Liu , Jiaming Liu , Jiaying Liu , Jue Wang , Jian Sun

Face recognition remains a challenging task in unconstrained scenarios, especially when faces are partially occluded. To improve the robustness against occlusion, augmenting the training images with artificial occlusions has been proved as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mingjie He , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Xiao Liu , Zhongqin Wu , Xilin Chen

Occluded face detection is a challenging detection task due to the large appearance variations incurred by various real-world occlusions. This paper introduces an Adversarial Occlusion-aware Face Detector (AOFD) by simultaneously detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Yujia Chen , Lingxiao Song , Ran He

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

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

Recent studies made great progress in video matting by extending the success of trimap-based image matting to the video domain. In this paper, we push this task toward a more practical setting and propose One-Trimap Video Matting network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Hongje Seong , Seoung Wug Oh , Brian Price , Euntai Kim , Joon-Young Lee

In this paper, we proposed an unsupervised learning method for estimating the optical flow between video frames, especially to solve the occlusion problem. Occlusion is caused by the movement of an object or the movement of the camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Jianfeng Li , Junqiao Zhao , Tiantian Feng , Chen Ye , Lu Xiong