pix2gestalt: Amodal Segmentation by Synthesizing Wholes
Authors: Ege Ozguroglu, Ruoshi Liu, Dídac Surís, Dian Chen, Achal Dave, Pavel Tokmakov, Carl Vondrick

We introduce pix2gestalt a framework for zero-shot amodal segmentation which learns to estimate the shape and appearance of whole objects that are only partially visible behind occlusions. By capitalizing on large-scale diffusion models and transferring their representations to this task we learn a conditional diffusion model for reconstructing whole objects in challenging zero-shot cases including examples that break natural and physical priors such as art. As training data we use a synthetically curated dataset containing occluded objects paired with their whole counterparts. Experiments show that our approach outperforms supervised baselines on established benchmarks. Our model can furthermore be used to significantly improve the performance of existing object recognition and 3D reconstruction methods in the presence of occlusions.