Semantic-guided Automatic Natural Image Matting with Trimap Generation Network and Light-weight Non-local Attention
Natural image matting aims to precisely separate foreground objects from background using alpha matte. Fully automatic natural image matting without external annotation is challenging. Well-performed matting methods usually require accurate labor-intensive handcrafted trimap as extra input, while the performance of automatic trimap generation method of dilating foreground segmentation fluctuates with segmentation quality. Therefore, we argue that how to handle trade-off of additional information input is a major issue in automatic matting. This paper presents a semantic-guided automatic natural image matting pipeline with Trimap Generation Network and light-weight non-local attention, which does not need trimap and background as input. Specifically, guided by foreground segmentation, Trimap Generation Network estimates accurate trimap. Then, with estimated trimap as guidance, our light-weight Non-local Matting Network with Refinement produces final alpha matte, whose trimap-guided global aggregation attention block is equipped with stride downsampling convolution, reducing computation complexity and promoting performance. Experimental results show that our matting algorithm has competitive performance with state-of-the-art methods in both trimap-free and trimap-needed aspects.
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