Image-Space UV Map-Based Tracking of Image Regions in Video

A method for use by a system including a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code, the method comprising:

• receiving, by the software code executed by the hardware processor, a sequence of images, each image of the sequence of images including a depiction of a same object;
• for each image of the sequence of images;
• extracting, by the software code executed by the hardware processor, a plurality of visual features of the same object depicted in the image;
• and
• processing, by the software code executed by the hardware processor, the plurality of visual features to predict an image-space UV map of the same object depicted in the image;
• receiving, by the software code executed by the hardware processor, a masking input identifying a portion of the same object to be overlaid by a mask;
• and
• masking, by the software code executed by the hardware processor and using the masking input and the image-space UV map predicted for each image of the sequence of images, a respective portion of each image of the sequence of images corresponding to the identified portion to produce a masked sequence of images.