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I thought Remask AI from Topaz Labs was good, but this did what took a few seconds what took me several minutes of corrections in that other program. It worked quite…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"27974389","ushakov","just used it today for removing white background from my favicon very neat indeed",{"value":62,"source":7,"evidence":63},"Mobile app $9.50 per month with a free version; web tool free",[64],{"id":65,"by":11,"text":66},"27973526","Hey there, indeed I put an upsell screen at the end of the download because our mobile apps are currently the most advanced background remover and image editing tools we have.…",[68,76,80,84],{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"PyTorch","commenter",[72],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"27983069","mtthtlt","Matthieu here, ML engineer at PhotoRoom. We use a custom UNet model. We work with PyTorch for research and use Tensor RT and CoreML to deploy models.",{"value":77,"source":70,"evidence":78},"Custom UNet model",[79],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},{"value":81,"source":70,"evidence":82},"TensorRT",[83],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},{"value":85,"source":70,"evidence":86},"CoreML",[87],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"unknown","launched","company",{"praise":92,"objections":113,"requests":143,"questions":162,"alternatives":167},[93,105],{"value":94,"source":70,"evidence":95},"Fast and accurate results on varied photos",[96,97,101],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"27975072","dawnerd","Wow, worked really well on an image of mine where it wouldn't necessarily be obvious what to remove. In fact I think it did better than the manual keying I did on it years ago.",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"27974216","RankingMember","Tested with Parked Domain Girl, worked great! (https:\u002F\u002Fknowyourmeme.com\u002Fmemes\u002Fpeople\u002Fparked-domain-girl)",{"value":106,"source":70,"evidence":107},"Useful free alternative",[108,112],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"27975641","cweill","Canva has this feature, but it's only available to premium users. I use it quite a bit when making YouTube thumbnails that contain my face. It's nice to have a free alternative.…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},[114,129,136],{"value":115,"source":70,"evidence":116},"Subscription pricing is too high for occasional users",[117,121,125],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"27974116","cyberge99","Why did you choose a monthly subscription model? I’m genuinely curious because I’m a “one off” user. I don’t use it frequently enough to justify a recurring monthly cost. Have…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"27974993","guillegette","Credits is the way to go, most common biz model in the industry. I understand their appetite for MRR but there should be a more low entry plan.",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"27992388","Terretta","Um … “most of our users are users who will pay for this model” doesn’t really prove what you think it proves. But more to the point $120 - $240 assuming major versions last a…",{"value":130,"source":70,"evidence":131},"Pricing hidden behind app download",[132],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"27973474","PMan74","Seems to work well based on a quick trial on the web site. Annoying that I seem to have to download the app to see how much it costs.",{"value":137,"source":70,"evidence":138},"Fails on some images such as complex backgrounds with trees",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"27975161","rp8","It didn’t work in my picture. It has trees in the background from a small hill looking down.",[144,155],{"value":145,"source":70,"evidence":146},"Video background removal",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"27973667","ashraymalhotra","Congratulations @vvyoer! We are active paid users of https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unscreen.com\u002F for video background removal. Do you have plans to add support for video background removal anytime…",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"27974320","ea016","Eliot here, I work with Vincent on PhotoRoom. Our current focus is shipping an incredible app on the web and on mobile, but we'll tackle video very soon!",{"value":156,"source":70,"evidence":157},"One-off or credit-based pricing",[158,159],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},{"id":160,"by":11,"text":161},"27976778","We started as a mobile app and the subscription model was the obvious choice here. 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