MaGGIe: Masked Guided Gradual Human Instance Matting
Authors: name: Chuong Huynh, name: Seoung Wug Oh, name: Abhinav Shrivastava, name: Joon-Young Lee

Human matting is a foundation task in image and video processing, where human
foreground pixels are extracted from the input. Prior works either improve the
accuracy by additional guidance or improve the temporal consistency of a single
instance across frames. We propose a new framework MaGGIe, Masked Guided
Gradual Human Instance Matting, which predicts alpha mattes progressively for
each human instances while maintaining the computational cost, precision, and
consistency. Our method leverages modern architectures, including transformer
attention and sparse convolution, to output all instance mattes simultaneously
without exploding memory and latency. Although keeping constant inference costs
in the multiple-instance scenario, our framework achieves robust and versatile
performance on our proposed synthesized benchmarks. With the higher quality
image and video matting benchmarks, the novel multi-instance synthesis approach
from publicly available sources is introduced to increase the generalization of
models in real-world scenarios.