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arxiv: 2606.00386 · v1 · pith:EXMW2KJAnew · submitted 2026-05-29 · 💻 cs.CV

{α}Depth: Learning Single-Pass Soft Boundary Decomposition for Stereo Conversion

Xiang Zhang , Yang Zhang , Lukas Mehl , Karlis Martins Briedis , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers This is my paper

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keywords stereo conversionsoft boundary decompositionlayered depthalpha representationdepth estimationcomputer visionimage matting
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αDepth decomposes soft boundaries via layered color and depth estimates plus circular alpha representation for accurate stereo conversion without manual guidance.

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The paper targets the ambiguity at soft boundaries such as hair and defocus blur during stereo conversion from single images. It proposes estimating separate layered color and depth values at those boundaries instead of single-layer depth predictions. To manage complex scenes with multiple targets, the method introduces Circular Alpha Representation that performs local boundary decomposition rather than global foreground extraction. This design supports single-pass, automatic scene-level inference. If correct, the result is stereo output free of background bleeding and structural distortions at fuzzy edges.

Core claim

αDepth is a layered representation that resolves mixed color and depth ambiguity by estimating layered color and depth values at soft boundaries and employs Circular Alpha Representation (CAR) to shift from global target extraction to local boundary decomposition, enabling efficient scene-level inference without manual guidance.

What carries the argument

Circular Alpha Representation (CAR), a local boundary decomposition method that replaces global target extraction to support multi-target scene inference.

If this is right

  • Eliminates background bleeding at soft boundaries in stereo output.
  • Removes structural distortions at soft boundaries.
  • Supports single-pass processing in complex multi-target scenes.
  • Removes the need for user intervention required by prior matting methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The local decomposition approach could extend to temporal consistency checks in video stereo conversion.
  • Layered boundary handling may improve related tasks such as instance-aware image synthesis.
  • Replacing global matting with boundary-focused representations might apply to other vision problems involving transparency.

Load-bearing premise

That estimating layered color and depth values combined with CAR enables accurate scene-level inference without manual guidance even in complex multi-target scenes.

What would settle it

Stereo conversion results on a test set of complex multi-object scenes that still exhibit background bleeding or structural distortions at soft boundaries.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.00386 by Christopher Schroers, Karlis Martins Briedis, Lukas Mehl, Markus Gross, Xiang Zhang, Yang Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Layered αDepth Representation. We introduce αDepth to decompose soft boundaries (e.g., hair, thin structures, and defocus blur) for high-fidelity stereo conversion. Given an image and its depth map as inputs, our approach estimates layered information, i.e., alpha, foreground/background (FG/BG) colors and depths, at local soft boundaries (see non-zero alpha regions), enabling scene-level inference of multi… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison with existing paradigms. Depth estimation models typically assign a single depth value per pixel, struggling with mixed colors at soft boundaries and suffering from depth ambiguity. While conventional matting approaches extract instance-level soft boundaries, they usually require manual guidance (e.g., trimaps). In contrast, our layered αDepth representation enables automatic scene-level decompo… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Challenges of soft boundary recovery in stereo conversion. (a) We evaluate warping performance via Epipolar Plane Images (EPIs) extracted along the gray dashed line under uniform rightward camera motion. Direct warping with Video Depth Anything [3] struggles with depth ambiguity at soft boundaries, causing broken edges and flying pixels. Although HairGuard [55] captures better details, its single-layer dep… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: αDepth estimation pipeline. Given an image and its corresponding depth map (e.g., from a pre-trained depth model), we employ a dual-path encoder to extract both semantic and detail features. A multi-branch decoder then processes these features for task-specific predictions. Finally, we apply circular alpha decoding to generate the estimated alpha map, which subsequently modulates and constrains the layered… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Circular Alpha Representation (CAR). The vanilla alpha representation inherently suffers from sharp discontinuities at the intersecting boundaries of multiple overlapping instances. By contrast, CAR encodes the ground-truth alpha into continuous trigonometric space during training, benefiting model optimization and eliminating alpha valley issues (Fig. 3b). During inference, the predicted trigonometric com… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Training Data Curation. Firstly, the alpha map is processed via circular alpha encoding to yield continuous alpha labels (αsin, αcos) and thresholded to produce layered masks (MFG, MBG). In layered color/depth generation, foreground and background assets are composited to form the synthesized input image (IIN) and depth (DIN). Concurrently, masked blending is applied to generate ground-truth color layers (… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visual comparisons with HairGuard [55] in warping and stereo conversion [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Visual comparisons with alpha matting methods [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Stability comparisons between vanilla alpha representation and circular alpha representa￾tion (CAR). Vanilla alpha representation often suffers from alpha valley issues and thus produces unstable results. By contrast, our CAR shows consistent performance when processing video inputs. Regions outside α ∈ [0.02, 0.98] are masked out for better comparison. to test the robustness of our αDepth method with 10 t… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Alpha estimation performance under different depth inputs. We generate input depth using state-of-the-art models, including Depth Anything V2 (DAv2) [45], Depth Pro (DPro) [2], Pixel-Perfect Depth (PPD) [42], and MoGe-2 [40]. Despite different characteristics exhibited in depth inputs, our αDepth shows stable performance in alpha estimation and soft boundary detail extraction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/ful… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Warping performance under large viewpoint changes. This example employs the camera motion (arc left with rotation) from ReCamMaster [1]. Due to depth ambiguity in soft boundary regions, the warping results using the original depth from Depth Anything V2 [45] often contain broken structures. Although HairGuard refines depth to better preserve soft boundary details [55], its results often suffer from backgr… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Visual comparisons of ablation models in Tab. 4. F Visualization of Ablation Models [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Visualization of αDepth results on Marvel-10K dataset [55]. for instance-level inference. While auxiliary-free methods like GVM [8] reduce user effort, they are typically optimized for specific semantic categories and struggle to generalize to the diverse types of soft boundaries in complex scenes. As demonstrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visual comparisons in warping and stereo conversion, part one. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Visual comparisons in warping and stereo conversion, part two. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Visual comparisons with alpha matting methods. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_16.png] view at source ↗
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Accurately modeling soft boundaries, e.g., hair and defocus blur, is a fundamental challenge in stereo conversion due to the ambiguous blending of foreground and background. Existing depth models primarily predict single-layer depth, leading to ambiguity in depth correspondence at soft boundaries. While matting techniques can capture opacity for layered modeling, they often struggle in complex scenes with multiple targets and usually require user intervention. This paper introduces {\alpha}Depth, a layered representation that decomposes soft boundaries for high-fidelity stereo conversion. Specifically, we first resolve mixed color and depth ambiguity by estimating layered color and depth values at soft boundaries. Considering complex multi-target scenes, we design a Circular Alpha Representation (CAR) that shifts the paradigm from global target extraction to local boundary decomposition. Unlike prior matting methods restricted to a single foreground/background, CAR enables efficient scene-level inference without manual guidance. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that {\alpha}Depth achieves state-of-the-art performance in stereo conversion, eliminating background bleeding and structural distortions at soft boundaries.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces αDepth, a layered representation for stereo conversion that resolves mixed color and depth ambiguity at soft boundaries via layered estimation and proposes Circular Alpha Representation (CAR) to shift from global extraction to local boundary decomposition, enabling guidance-free scene-level inference in multi-target scenes and claiming SOTA performance with elimination of bleeding and distortions.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work would offer a meaningful advance for stereo conversion by addressing soft-boundary artifacts without manual intervention, with potential impact on applications requiring accurate layered depth in complex scenes.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that CAR 'enables efficient scene-level inference without manual guidance' in complex multi-target scenes rests on the untested premise that independent local decompositions compose without residual ambiguity or bleeding; no derivation or bound on composition error is supplied.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: assertions of 'state-of-the-art performance' and 'eliminating background bleeding and structural distortions' are unsupported by any quantitative results, baselines, error metrics, or evaluation details.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment point-by-point below and indicate planned revisions to the abstract.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that CAR 'enables efficient scene-level inference without manual guidance' in complex multi-target scenes rests on the untested premise that independent local decompositions compose without residual ambiguity or bleeding; no derivation or bound on composition error is supplied.

    Authors: CAR is explicitly formulated for local boundary decomposition so that each soft boundary can be processed independently; the full manuscript shows through multi-target scene experiments that these local results compose into coherent scene-level layered representations without guidance. We agree, however, that the manuscript supplies no formal derivation or composition-error bound. We will revise the abstract to frame the claim as empirically validated rather than theoretically guaranteed. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: assertions of 'state-of-the-art performance' and 'eliminating background bleeding and structural distortions' are unsupported by any quantitative results, baselines, error metrics, or evaluation details.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes results that are quantified in the manuscript (comparisons to prior depth and matting baselines, PSNR/SSIM and perceptual metrics on stereo conversion, and visual ablation of bleeding/distortion). To address the concern that the abstract itself lacks supporting detail, we will revise it to reference the key quantitative findings and evaluation protocol. revision: yes

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full rationale

The provided abstract and context contain no equations, derivations, parameter fits, or self-citations. CAR is introduced descriptively as a shift to local decomposition, but no mathematical steps are exhibited that could reduce a claimed prediction or uniqueness result to its own inputs by construction. Per the hard rules, absence of quotable reductions means score 0 and empty steps list.

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  • Circular Alpha Representation (CAR) no independent evidence
    purpose: Shifts from global target extraction to local boundary decomposition for multi-target scenes
    New design element introduced to enable single-pass scene-level inference without manual guidance

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