Precise Human Removal and Inpainting Using Mask RCNN and LaMa

Sometimes people are not supposed to be in a photo for various purposes, but this is usually unavoidable. Therefore, in the postprocessing of the image, it can be solved by removing people from the picture without affecting the coherence and naturalness of the object and background in the photo. We propose a human removal method based on image instance segmentation and image inpainting. Firstly, we send an image into the image instance segmentation algorithm to obtain a mask covering the unwanted parts of the picture. Then we do dilatation on this mask to expand the mask region. Finally, the inpainting algorithm will take the image and the processed mask and produce an inpainted image with no human and feel natural.