image matting

English

Etymology

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Particularly: “matting (“surface used for surrounding pictures”)?”

Noun

image matting (uncountable)

(machine learning) Extraction of an object in the foreground of an image from its background.

Translations

extraction of a foreground object

Chinese:
Mandarin: 摳圖／抠图 (kōutú)