Adds bgfilter/segmentation.py: BiRefNetSegmenter produces a soft subject mask
that defines topology -- it includes colour-contaminated foreground (green-tinted
hair) and excludes see-through holes (finger gaps), the distinction chroma/colour
cues cannot make. Validated on both samples: green hair -> foreground, finger gap
-> background, both correct.
Foundation of the semantic-guided redesign; the mask will drive trimap
construction next, with ViTMatte still refining soft edges.
- SegmentationSettings (ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet, 1024 input, fp32).
- Deps: torchvision, timm, einops, kornia. Weights load from HuggingFace via
trust_remote_code; behind a firewall set HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com and
bypass the proxy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After the full-foreground despill (5ddf0cd) the residual green was confined to
semi-transparent hair (alpha < 0.5): 85% of the worst pixels had alpha < 0.3,
where a pixel-wise unmix (divide by small alpha) is too noisy to trust.
Replace the hand-rolled unmix/local-blur estimator with pymatting's
estimate_foreground_ml (Germer et al. multi-level closed form), which propagates
reliable foreground colour from high-alpha neighbours into the fringe and
estimates the background, so green spill is unmixed rather than clamped. The
despill pass stays as a light cleanup on top.
- foreground.method selects "ml" (default) or "unmix" (legacy heuristic kept as
a fallback when pymatting is unavailable, matching the chroma fallback idiom).
- ForegroundEstimate now exposes rgb (F), background (B) and a correction map;
debug outputs become foreground_rgb / foreground_background / foreground_correction.
Controlled comparison (same ViTMatte alpha, only foreground method changed),
edge_green_excess:
TestImage p95 0.176->0.031, mean 0.061->0.005
TestImage2 p95 0.165->0.004, mean 0.052->0.002
Adds pymatting (pulls in numba) to requirements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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