BEN: Using Confidence-Guided Matting for Dichotomous Image Segmentation

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author Meyer, Maxwell
Spruyt, Jack
author_facet Meyer, Maxwell
Spruyt, Jack
contents Current approaches to dichotomous image segmentation (DIS) treat image matting and object segmentation as fundamentally different tasks. As improvements in image segmentation become increasingly challenging to achieve, combining image matting and grayscale segmentation techniques offers promising new directions for architectural innovation. Inspired by the possibility of aligning these two model tasks, we propose a new architectural approach for DIS called Confidence-Guided Matting (CGM). We created the first CGM model called Background Erase Network (BEN). BEN consists of two components: BEN Base for initial segmentation and BEN Refiner for confidence-based refinement. Our approach achieves substantial improvements over current state-of-the-art methods on the DIS5K validation dataset, demonstrating that matting-based refinement can significantly enhance segmentation quality. This work introduces a new paradigm for integrating matting and segmentation techniques, improving fine-grained object boundary prediction in computer vision.
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spellingShingle BEN: Using Confidence-Guided Matting for Dichotomous Image Segmentation
Meyer, Maxwell
Spruyt, Jack
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Current approaches to dichotomous image segmentation (DIS) treat image matting and object segmentation as fundamentally different tasks. As improvements in image segmentation become increasingly challenging to achieve, combining image matting and grayscale segmentation techniques offers promising new directions for architectural innovation. Inspired by the possibility of aligning these two model tasks, we propose a new architectural approach for DIS called Confidence-Guided Matting (CGM). We created the first CGM model called Background Erase Network (BEN). BEN consists of two components: BEN Base for initial segmentation and BEN Refiner for confidence-based refinement. Our approach achieves substantial improvements over current state-of-the-art methods on the DIS5K validation dataset, demonstrating that matting-based refinement can significantly enhance segmentation quality. This work introduces a new paradigm for integrating matting and segmentation techniques, improving fine-grained object boundary prediction in computer vision.
title BEN: Using Confidence-Guided Matting for Dichotomous Image Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06230