Amodal Ground Truth and Completion in the Wild

This paper studies amodal image segmentation: predicting entire object segmentation masks including both visible and invisible (occluded) parts. In previous work the amodal segmentation ground truth on real images is usually predicted by manual annotaton and thus is subjective. In contrast we use 3D data to establish an automatic pipeline to determine authentic ground truth amodal masks for partially occluded objects in real images. This pipeline is used to construct an amodal completion evaluation benchmark MP3D-Amodal consisting of a variety of object categories and labels. To better handle the amodal completion task in the wild we explore two architecture variants: a two-stage model that first infers the occluder followed by amodal mask completion; and a one-stage model that exploits the representation power of Stable Diffusion for amodal segmentation across many categories. Without bells and whistles our method achieves a new state-of-the-art performance on Amodal segmentation datasets that cover a large variety of objects including COCOA and our new MP3D-Amodal dataset. The dataset model and code are available at https://www. robots.ox.ac.uk/ vgg/research/amodal/.