Useful utilities that will help when trying to make stuff

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/StableDiffusion

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  1. img-txt_viewer

    A suite of tools for easy image tagging. Focused on LoRA training dataset creation and preparation

    I've included a portable exe file in the release section that should fix that that sort of issue. Direct link

  2. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  3. rembg

    Rembg is a tool to remove images background

    4.) rembg -- backgrounds be gone. If there isn't an extension in Automatic1111 for this yet, there should be (I haven't checked recently). Same deal as midas, you can point it at a folder and zap the backgrounds off of all your images. Useful in combo with midas and imagemagick if, for instance, you want images of an object on a white background (Stable Diffusion training via LoRAs/Dreambooth may not benefit, but other things like GANs prefer that sort of training image). Useful if you want to "compose" a scene and you have images of dispirate objects/people you want in that scene.

  4. FFmpeg

    Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

    1.) ffmpeg -- this is the bee's knees for video encoding/decoding, turning a bunch of pictures into a video, resizing, format conversion, going video -> image sequence, etc. It has hardware acceleration via Nvidia GPUs built-in, too, so you can use your video card for speeding up a lot of stuff like encoding.

  5. DIS

    This is the repo for our new project Highly Accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation

    Rembg only adds to my frustration. It's a half-assed solution providing sub-par results and acting as a band-aid for the fundamental absence of any transparency handling in diffusion models. DIS is better, but it's a pain to set up and still often needs retouching. Trying to remove backgrounds post-generation will always be an uphill battle because the information just isn't there.

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