Month: December 2025

MaGGIe Training Setup: High-Performance Human Instance Matting with A100 GPUs

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

Synthesizing Multi-Instance Human Matting Data with MaskRCNN and BG20K

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

Introducing SOCI indexing for Amazon SageMaker Studio: Faster container startup times for AI/ML workloads

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Today, we are excited to introduce a new feature for SageMaker Studio: SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing. SOCI supports lazy loading of container images, where only the necessary parts of an image are downloaded initially rather than the entire container. SageMaker Studio serves as a web Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for end-to-end machine learning (ML) development, … Read more

MaGGIe Architecture Deep Dive: Mask Guidance and Sparse Refinement

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon

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TAE Technologies’ fusion research reactor ‘Norm.’ | Photo: TAE Technologies Trump Media – yup, the parent company of Truth Social – is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday, and a bold plan to break … Read more

MaGGIe Roadmap: Overcoming Data Generalization in Matting Models

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more