DRIP: Unleashing Diffusion Priors for Joint Foreground and Alpha Prediction in Image Matting

Recovering the foreground color and opacity/alpha matte from a single image (i.e., image matting) is a challenging and ill-posed problem where data priors play a critical role in achieving precise results. Traditional methods generally predict the alpha matte and then extract the foreground through post-processing, often failing to produce high-fidelity foreground color. This failure stems from the models' difficulty in learning robust color predictions from limited matting datasets. To address this, we explore the potential of leveraging vision priors embedded in pre-trained latent diffusion models (LDM) for estimating foreground RGBA values in challenging scenarios and rare objects. We introduce Drip, a novel approach for image matting that harnesses the rich prior knowledge of LDM models.