MatAnyoneDemo

MatAnyoneDemo

Sample iOS app for pq-yang/MatAnyone (CVPR 2025) — temporally consistent video matting with object-level memory propagation. Given a first-frame mask the network tracks and refines an alpha matte across the whole clip, holding sharp edges (hair, semitransparent regions) much better than per-frame matting baselines. Built on the Cutie video object segmentation backbone with a dedicated mask decoder for matting.

The sample app uses Vision's VNGeneratePersonSegmentationRequest to bootstrap the first-frame mask automatically — pick a video, tap "Remove BG", and it composites the foreground over the chosen background colour.

End-to-end alpha matte parity vs the official PyTorch reference: MAE < 2e-4, correlation 0.9999+ across 18 frames including 3 memory cycles.

matting.mp4

Models

5 mlpackages, ~111 MB total at FP16. The CoreML graph is locked to landscape 768 × 432; portrait sources are rotated to landscape before the pipeline and rotated back afterwards.

Module	Inputs	Outputs
encoder	image [1, 3, 432, 768]	f16 / f8 / f4 / f2 / f1 multi-scale features + pix_feat + key + shrinkage + selection
mask_encoder	image, pix_feat, sensory, mask	mask_value, new_sensory, obj_summary
read_first	pix_feat, last_msk_value, sensory, last_mask, obj_memory	mem_readout (no memory attention, first-frame readout)
read	query_key, query_selection, pix_feat, sensory, last_mask, last_pix_feat, last_msk_value, mem_key, mem_shrinkage, mem_msk_value, mem_valid, obj_memory	mem_readout (memory attention readout over a fixed-T ring buffer)
decoder	f16 / f8 / f4 / f2 / f1, mem_readout, sensory	new_sensory, alpha matte [1, 1, 432, 768]

Setup

1. Build the mlpackages from conversion_scripts/convert_matanyone.py (release builds will be uploaded later)
2. Drop the 5 .mlpackage directories into the Xcode project
3. Build and run on a physical device (iOS 17+)

Per-Frame State Machine (Swift)

The split puts all the bookkeeping in Swift so each CoreML module is a pure function of its inputs. State carried between frames:

• sensory — (1, 1, 256, h, w)
• last_mask — (1, 1, H, W)
• last_pix_feat — (1, 256, h, w)
• last_msk_value — (1, 1, 256, h, w)
• obj_memory — (1, 1, 1, 16, 257) (streaming sum + count)
• Working memory ring buffer at fixed T_max = 5:
  • mem_key — (1, 64, T_max·h·w)
  • mem_shrinkage — (1, 1, T_max·h·w)
  • mem_msk_value — (1, 256, T_max·h·w)
  • mem_valid — (1, T_max·h·w) per-slot validity mask
• current_frame, last_mem_frame, next_fifo_slot

Per-frame loop: encoder → (read_first or read) → decoder → mask_encoder → (if memory frame) update sensory + write the FIFO slot + accumulate obj_memory.

Conversion Notes

• Network split into 5 stateless mlpackages so the per-frame memory state machine can live in Swift while CoreML handles the heavy compute.
• single_object=False but hard-coded num_objects=1 lets the chunk loops collapse to the fast path. flip_aug=False, use_long_term=False, chunk_size=-1 match the official matting config.
• torch.prod(1 - mask, dim=1) in aggregate is monkey-patched to 1 - mask (identity for num_objects=1) since prod isn't supported by coremltools.
• Memory tensors are pre-flattened to rank 3 ([1, C, T·h·w]) to stay within Core ML's rank-5 limit.
• Variable-length working memory is handled by adding (1 - valid) * -6e4 to the similarity before top-k softmax (FP16-safe -inf substitute).
• Resolution fixed at 768 × 432 (mobile 16:9, divisible by 16). For other aspect ratios, re-run the converter with --height/--width.
• read and read_first ship CPU-only by default, encoder / mask_encoder / decoder run on .cpuAndGPU. The CPU-only restriction comes from PixelFeatureFuser.forward slicing [:, i:i+chunk_size] on the singleton num_objects dim and the visual_readout[:, 0] - last_msk_value[:, 0] diff in the read wrapper — both trip Metal Performance Shaders with subRange.start = -1 vs length 1 on iOS GPU. The converter has been patched to bypass both (single-object fast path in PixelFeatureFuser.forward, .squeeze(1) instead of [:, 0]), but you have to re-run convert_matanyone.py to rebuild the read / read_first mlpackages and then flip the corresponding cpuCfg lines to gpuCfg in MatAnyoneEngine.init. The old mlpackages have the singleton-dim slices baked into the graph and will crash on .cpuAndGPU.
• No warmup loop. The official process_video runs the first frame 10 times with first_frame_pred=true to stabilise memory, but at FP16 those repeated feedback iterations drift the alpha to zero. The single seed step + one first_frame_pred pass already matches the Python reference within MAE < 2e-4.

First-Frame Mask Bootstrap (Vision)

The Vision soft mask is binarised at 0.5 and dilated by radius 8 (separable max filter) before being handed to MatAnyone. The model can shrink the alpha but cannot recover from a mask that misses parts of the foreground, so the seed is intentionally generous.

Conversion Script

conversion_scripts/convert_matanyone.py