This document discusses background elimination techniques which involve three main steps: object detection to select the target, segmentation to isolate the target from the background, and refinement to improve the quality of the segmented mask. It provides an overview of approaches that have been used for each step, including early methods based on SVM and more recent deep learning-based techniques like Mask R-CNN that integrate detection and segmentation. The document also notes that segmentation is challenging without object detection cues and discusses types of segmentation as well as refinement methods that use transformations, dimension reduction, and graph-based modeling.