Summary of Towards High-fidelity Head Blending with Chroma Keying For Industrial Applications, by Hah Min Lew et al.
Towards High-fidelity Head Blending with Chroma Keying for Industrial Applications
by Hah Min Lew, Sahng-Min Yoo, Hyunwoo Kang, Gyeong-Moon Park
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Graphics (cs.GR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel pipeline for seamlessly integrating an actor’s head onto a target body in digital content creation. The challenge lies in discrepancies in head shape and hair structure, leading to unnatural boundaries and blending artifacts. To address this issue, the authors introduce CHANGER, a decoupled background integration and foreground blending approach. The pipeline utilizes chroma keying for artifact-free background generation and H^2 augmentation to simulate various head shapes and hair styles. Additionally, the Foreground Predictive Attention Transformer (FPAT) module enhances foreground blending by predicting and focusing on key regions. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of CHANGER through quantitative and qualitative evaluations on benchmark datasets, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way to combine an actor’s head with a different body in movies and TV shows. This is a tricky task because the shapes and hairstyles can be very different, making it hard to blend them together smoothly. The authors created a special pipeline called CHANGER that solves this problem by separating the process into two parts: first, creating a clean background, and then blending the head onto the body. They also developed a special technique called H^2 augmentation that allows for more realistic head shapes and hair styles. Finally, they used a transformer to focus on important areas of the face and body. The results are impressive, with CHANGER outperforming other methods in tests. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Transformer
