diff --git a/Android.mk b/Android.mk
index 3dd302bb..79fa0f5f 100644
--- a/Android.mk
+++ b/Android.mk
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ LOCAL_SRC_FILES := \
     src/dec/webp.c \
     src/dsp/alpha_processing.c \
     src/dsp/alpha_processing_mips_dsp_r2.c \
+    src/dsp/alpha_processing_sse2.c \
     src/dsp/cpu.c \
     src/dsp/dec.c \
     src/dsp/dec_clip_tables.c \
diff --git a/Makefile.vc b/Makefile.vc
index 333ebf4f..9c76fc8f 100644
--- a/Makefile.vc
+++ b/Makefile.vc
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ DEMUX_OBJS = \
 DSP_DEC_OBJS = \
     $(DIROBJ)\dsp\alpha_processing.obj \
     $(DIROBJ)\dsp\alpha_processing_mips_dsp_r2.obj \
+    $(DIROBJ)\dsp\alpha_processing_sse2.obj \
     $(DIROBJ)\dsp\cpu.obj \
     $(DIROBJ)\dsp\dec.obj \
     $(DIROBJ)\dsp\dec_clip_tables.obj \
diff --git a/makefile.unix b/makefile.unix
index 79e2f6bf..bcc3a699 100644
--- a/makefile.unix
+++ b/makefile.unix
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ DEMUX_OBJS = \
 DSP_DEC_OBJS = \
     src/dsp/alpha_processing.o \
     src/dsp/alpha_processing_mips_dsp_r2.o \
+    src/dsp/alpha_processing_sse2.o \
     src/dsp/cpu.o \
     src/dsp/dec.o \
     src/dsp/dec_clip_tables.o \
diff --git a/src/dsp/Makefile.am b/src/dsp/Makefile.am
index 167a4695..cbc759d4 100644
--- a/src/dsp/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/dsp/Makefile.am
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ libwebpdsp_avx2_la_CPPFLAGS = $(libwebpdsp_la_CPPFLAGS)
 libwebpdsp_avx2_la_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) $(AVX2_FLAGS)
 
 libwebpdspdecode_sse2_la_SOURCES =
+libwebpdspdecode_sse2_la_SOURCES += alpha_processing_sse2.c
 libwebpdspdecode_sse2_la_SOURCES += dec_sse2.c
 libwebpdspdecode_sse2_la_SOURCES += lossless_sse2.c
 libwebpdspdecode_sse2_la_SOURCES += upsampling_sse2.c
diff --git a/src/dsp/alpha_processing.c b/src/dsp/alpha_processing.c
index e214f9fe..cc47844f 100644
--- a/src/dsp/alpha_processing.c
+++ b/src/dsp/alpha_processing.c
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ int (*WebPDispatchAlpha)(const uint8_t*, int, int, int, uint8_t*, int);
 
 extern void VP8FiltersInitMIPSdspR2(void);
 extern void WebPInitAlphaProcessingMIPSdspR2(void);
+extern void WebPInitAlphaProcessingSSE2(void);
 
 void WebPInitAlphaProcessing(void) {
   WebPMultARGBRow = MultARGBRow;
@@ -322,6 +323,11 @@ void WebPInitAlphaProcessing(void) {
 
   // If defined, use CPUInfo() to overwrite some pointers with faster versions.
   if (VP8GetCPUInfo != NULL) {
+#if defined(WEBP_USE_SSE2)
+    if (VP8GetCPUInfo(kSSE2)) {
+      WebPInitAlphaProcessingSSE2();
+    }
+#endif
 #if defined(WEBP_USE_MIPS_DSP_R2)
     if (VP8GetCPUInfo(kMIPSdspR2)) {
       VP8FiltersInitMIPSdspR2();
diff --git a/src/dsp/alpha_processing_sse2.c b/src/dsp/alpha_processing_sse2.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c8d95e1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dsp/alpha_processing_sse2.c
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+// Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
+// that can be found in the COPYING file in the root of the source
+// tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
+// in the file PATENTS. All contributing project authors may
+// be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Utilities for processing transparent channel.
+//
+// Author: Skal (pascal.massimino@gmail.com)
+
+#include "./dsp.h"
+
+#if defined(WEBP_USE_SSE2)
+#include <emmintrin.h>
+
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+static int DispatchAlpha(const uint8_t* alpha, int alpha_stride,
+                         int width, int height,
+                         uint8_t* dst, int dst_stride) {
+  // alpha_and stores an 'and' operation of all the alpha[] values. The final
+  // value is not 0xff if any of the alpha[] is not equal to 0xff.
+  uint32_t alpha_and = 0xff;
+  int i, j;
+  const __m128i zero = _mm_setzero_si128();
+  const __m128i rgb_mask = _mm_set1_epi32(0xffffff00u);  // to preserve RGB
+  const __m128i all_0xff = _mm_set_epi32(~0u, ~0u, 0, 0);
+  __m128i all_alphas = all_0xff;
+
+  // We must be able to access 3 extra bytes after the last written byte
+  // 'dst[4 * width - 4]', because we don't know if alpha is the first or the
+  // last byte of the quadruplet.
+  const int limit = (width - 1) >> 3;
+
+  for (j = 0; j < height; ++j) {
+    const uint8_t* in = alpha;
+    __m128i* out = (__m128i*)dst;
+    for (i = 0; i < limit; ++i) {
+      // load 8 alpha bytes
+      const __m128i a0 = _mm_loadl_epi64((__m128i*)in);   // zeroes upper bytes
+      const __m128i a1 = _mm_unpacklo_epi8(a0, zero);
+      const __m128i a2_lo = _mm_unpacklo_epi16(a1, zero);
+      const __m128i a2_hi = _mm_unpackhi_epi16(a1, zero);
+      // load 8 dst pixels (32 bytes)
+      const __m128i b0_lo = _mm_loadu_si128(out + 0);
+      const __m128i b0_hi = _mm_loadu_si128(out + 1);
+      // mask dst alpha values
+      const __m128i b1_lo = _mm_and_si128(b0_lo, rgb_mask);
+      const __m128i b1_hi = _mm_and_si128(b0_hi, rgb_mask);
+      // combine
+      const __m128i b2_lo = _mm_or_si128(b1_lo, a2_lo);
+      const __m128i b2_hi = _mm_or_si128(b1_hi, a2_hi);
+      // store
+      _mm_storeu_si128(out + 0, b2_lo);
+      _mm_storeu_si128(out + 1, b2_hi);
+      // accumulate eight alpha 'and' in parallel
+      all_alphas = _mm_and_si128(all_alphas, a0);
+      out += 2;
+      in += 8;
+    }
+    for (; i < width; ++i) {
+      const uint32_t alpha_value = alpha[i];
+      dst[4 * i] = alpha_value;
+      alpha_and &= alpha_value;
+    }
+    alpha += alpha_stride;
+    dst += dst_stride;
+  }
+  // Combine the eight alpha 'and' into a 8-bit mask.
+  alpha_and &= _mm_movemask_epi8(_mm_cmpeq_epi8(all_alphas, all_0xff));
+  return (alpha_and != 0xff);
+}
+
+#endif   // WEBP_USE_SSE2
+
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Init function
+
+extern void WebPInitAlphaProcessingSSE2(void);
+
+void WebPInitAlphaProcessingSSE2(void) {
+#if defined(WEBP_USE_SSE2)
+  WebPDispatchAlpha = DispatchAlpha;
+#endif
+}