We introduce the PyMatting package for Python which implements various methods to solve the alpha matting problem.
- Website and Documentation: https://pymatting.github.io/
- Benchmarks: https://pymatting.github.io/benchmark.html
Given an input image and a hand-drawn trimap (top row), alpha matting estimates the alpha channel of a foreground object which can then be composed onto a different background (bottom row).
PyMatting provides:
- Alpha matting implementations for:
- Foreground estimation implementations for:
- Fast multithreaded KNN search
- Preconditioners to accelerate the convergence rate of conjugate gradient descent:
- The incomplete thresholded Cholesky decomposition (Incomplete is part of the name. The implementation is quite complete.)
- The V-Cycle Geometric Multigrid preconditioner
- Readable code leveraging NumPy, SciPy and Numba
Minimal requiremens
- numpy>=1.16.0
- pillow>=5.2.0
- numba>=0.47.0
- scipy>=1.1.0
Additional requirements for GPU support
- cupy-cuda90>=6.5.0 or similar
- pyopencl>=2019.1.2
Requirements to run the tests
- pytest>=5.3.4
pip3 install pymattinggit clone https://github.com/pymatting/pymatting
cd pymatting
pip3 install .from pymatting import cutout
cutout(
# input image path
"data/lemur/lemur.png",
# input trimap path
"data/lemur/lemur_trimap.png",
# output cutout path
"lemur_cutout.png")All implemented methods rely on trimaps which roughly classify the image into foreground, background and unknown reagions.
Trimaps are expected to be numpy.ndarrays of type np.float64 having the same shape as the input image with only one color-channel.
Trimap values of 0.0 denote pixels which are 100% background.
Similarly, trimap values of 1.0 denote pixels which are 100% foreground.
All other values indicate unknown pixels which will be estimated by the algorithm.
Run the tests from the main directory:
python3 tests/download_images.py
pip3 install -r requirements_tests.txt
pytest
Currently 89% of the code is covered by tests.
pip3 install --upgrade pymatting
python3 -c "import pymatting"Please, see our community guidelines.
- Thomas Germer
- Tobias Uelwer
- Stefan Conrad
- Stefan Harmeling
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
If you found PyMatting to be useful for your work, please consider citing our paper:
@article{Germer2020,
doi = {10.21105/joss.02481},
url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02481},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Open Journal},
volume = {5},
number = {54},
pages = {2481},
author = {Thomas Germer and Tobias Uelwer and Stefan Conrad and Stefan Harmeling},
title = {PyMatting: A Python Library for Alpha Matting},
journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}
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Lemur image by Mathias Appel from https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathiasappel/25419442300/ licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain License.