Open source Background Remover: Remove Background from images and video using AI

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  • backgroundremover

    Background Remover lets you Remove Background from images and video using AI with a simple command line interface that is free and open source.

  • I think this is what you wanted? https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover/tree/main/dist

  • mediapipe

    Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media.

  • I was going to say that I like the MediaPipe Selfie Segmentation model for doing this sort of thing in a web page, but I've just noticed (when getting the GitHub link[1]) that Google have marked the code as legacy[2] ... no idea if the new solution is better/easier to use[3].

    For what it's worth, my CodePen using the old model is here: https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/PopBxBM

    [1] - https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/docs/solutio...

    [2] - "Attention: Thank you for your interest in MediaPipe Solutions. As of April 4, 2023, this solution was upgraded to a new MediaPipe Solution."

    [3] - https://developers.google.com/mediapipe/solutions/vision/ima...

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  • Real-ESRGAN

    Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration.

  • There's a list of upscaling models here, based on your content: https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database

    The easiest one to get started with is probably Real-ESRGAN: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN

  • segment-anything

    The repository provides code for running inference with the SegmentAnything Model (SAM), links for downloading the trained model checkpoints, and example notebooks that show how to use the model.

  • Someone will probably write gimp plugin for https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything soon enough, there already is chrome extension https://github.com/kevmo314/magic-copy

  • magic-copy

    Magic Copy is a Chrome extension that uses Meta's Segment Anything Model to extract a foreground object from an image and copy it to the clipboard.

  • Someone will probably write gimp plugin for https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything soon enough, there already is chrome extension https://github.com/kevmo314/magic-copy

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