You aren't. In fact, as a non-native, it's difficult to not misread, as I didn't even know what matting was. And "real-time" and "human" go perfectly well with mating.
How is babby formed? Is a Green Screen Necessary for Real-Time Human Matting?
And here I read it as meeting. I'm glad I'm on vacation, but next week is the week of meetings...
This tech will surely be used in a lot of video meetings
It already is, or at least similar tech. I've used it in Zoom and Microsoft Teams to hide my background.
What tech? There is no source on their github and natural image matting has been an area of constant research for 20 years. You can search for bayesian matting, poisson matting and closed form matting for early influential papers.
Same hear, I call them Freudian misreads.
It would be Freudian if there was some subconscious tendency at play to misread it. But here even though "mating" is sexual, the misread is quite easy and effortless because the word "matting" is an obscure industry term that looks totally like "mating"....
Could be tiredness as well. When I saw the headline on the front page earlier, I read the word correctly. When I alt+tabbed to it just now, being tired, I did a double take because I read it as "mating".
In french language we have the "lapsus révélateur" catch phrase to call such slips.