Deep Image Matting: A Comprehensive Survey
Jizhizi Li, Jing Zhang, Dacheng Tao

TL;DR
This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent deep learning-based image matting techniques, covering methods, datasets, evaluations, applications, challenges, and future directions in the field.
Contribution
It systematically surveys recent deep image matting methods, compares their structures and performance, and discusses future research opportunities.
Findings
Deep learning has significantly advanced image matting techniques.
Existing methods vary in accuracy and computational efficiency.
The paper highlights key datasets and evaluation metrics.
Abstract
Image matting refers to extracting precise alpha matte from natural images, and it plays a critical role in various downstream applications, such as image editing. Despite being an ill-posed problem, traditional methods have been trying to solve it for decades. The emergence of deep learning has revolutionized the field of image matting and given birth to multiple new techniques, including automatic, interactive, and referring image matting. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advancements in image matting in the era of deep learning. We focus on two fundamental sub-tasks: auxiliary input-based image matting, which involves user-defined input to predict the alpha matte, and automatic image matting, which generates results without any manual intervention. We systematically review the existing methods for these two tasks according to their task settings and network…
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Taxonomy
TopicsImage Enhancement Techniques · Image Processing Techniques and Applications · Advanced Image Processing Techniques
