Dilating object masks to reduce artifacts during inpainting

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing a segmentation neural network and without user input, object masks for objects in a digital image. The disclosed systems determine foreground and background abutting an object mask. The disclosed systems generate an expanded object mask by expanding the object mask into the foreground abutting the object mask by a first amount and expanding the object mask into the background abutting the object mask by a second amount that differs from the first amount. The disclosed systems inpaint a hole corresponding to the expanded object mask utilizing an inpainting neural network.