Remove-bg
AI
background removal
SHOW HN2024
286points
121comments
#226of 3,515 in 2024
Top 7%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
11 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 21 critical, out of 56 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Execution: 5 for, 10 againstIdea: 3 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 6 against
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What people liked
Results are strong on many images, including hair and animals
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing this repo. While I don't have time to actively contribute to the code, I have been testing on images to share my feedback for future devs. 1. Background…
san_dimitri on HNI tried it on an image of me and a horse in front of a paddock and it worked perfectly. Really impressed. Other background removal tools would find me - but erase half the horse…
zurtri on HN
Runs fully offline once the model is loaded
From 1 comment
Well, my question is about where it lies within the gray area between fully online and fully offline, so that wouldn't work. Edit: Good call! It's fully offline - I disabled the…
benatkin on HN
Client-side processing with no server needed
From 1 comment
Nice work! Making AI accessible directly in the browser (even if you have to download quite the payload for the model parameters) is a real accessibility game changer. Shameless…
jacobn on HN
Objections
Crashes or freezes browsers and tabs, often from memory use
From 4 comments
Very cool idea, but for me it completely doesn't work. I'll open an image, the entire computer (running Linux) will briefly freeze (including stopping Spotify in its tracks) and…
akpa1 on HNOpened, uploaded image, looked good (it worked!). Then my browser (Arc) started freezing, unfroze after closing your website :/
ramonverse on HNI tried your site using the image: https://bannerify.co/tools/remove-bg I crashed the page after 10 or so seconds and Chrome prompted me: Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler, it…
kamjin on HNYou might want to warn about memory usage. I had Chromium consume several GBs of RAM and had to terminate it. But it is great that there now is more offline tools. It would be…
codedokode on HN
WebGPU fails to start on many browsers without flags
From 3 comments
Well gave it 2 tries before giving up. Does not do anything in FireFox and in Chrome it also failed after loading some data. It told me to restart Chrome with some GPU unsafe flag.
ivolimmen on HNStatus: Error Firefox on Linux: Error: Unsupported device: "webgpu". Should be one of: wasm. Chromium on Linux: Error: no available backend found. ERR: [webgpu] Error: Failed to…
beeboobaa3 on HNIt's not working for me
cutiepatootiee on HN
Generic error messages on failure
From 2 comments
The very first image I uploaded (A model lighthouse with a very obvious background) gives just "Error".
ericol on HNNon-descript error after 180 seconds. Vivaldi on Android. Please turn off the rolling animation for the duration timer. It looks really wrong when the numbers wind back (which…
Flop7331 on HN
Artifacts and lost detail on some images
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing this repo. While I don't have time to actively contribute to the code, I have been testing on images to share my feedback for future devs. 1. Background…
san_dimitri on HNThanks for sharing; it looks like this has trouble with certain kinds of images. Here's likely the most representative example: Original: https://imgur.com/a/NrEXfua BG removed:…
lelandfe on HN
Requests
Warn about model download size before loading
From 1 comment
It would be cool if it could ask before loading the model, or at least indicate to me how large the download will be, as I'm on a metered connection right now. But maybe that's…
sva_ on HN
Clearer error messages
From 1 comment
The error is ambiguous right now and I'll try to make it clearer (welcome for contributions) The idea is it fallbacks to not use webgpu if your browser is not supported, but it…
anduc on HN
Use a better model such as BiRefNet
From 1 comment
It is a 2024 model, for comparison https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg/ uses U2-Net which is open source from 2022. There is also https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet (another…
Mathnerd314 on HN
Questions
Does the model license allow this distribution?
From 3 comments
feels like it could be nice to abide by the license terms https://bria.ai/bria-huggingface-model-license-agreement/ > 1.1 License. > BRIA grants Customer a time-limited,…
Birch-san on HNIt doesn't, except that it runs it. There's no download link or code playground for running arbitrary code on it, so while technically it transfers the model to the computer…
benatkin on HNPretty sure downloading it to your browser counts as distributing it, legally speaking.
papa_bear on HN
Why not install through the Linux package manager?
From 1 comment
Why can't I just "apt-get install" tools like this? I used to have all the powerful tools at my fingertips but now I feel like my Linux distro is slowly disappearing into a…
amelius on HN
Alternatives named
remove.bg
From 2 comments
Not sure if you realise you've given it the same name as another product that does this exact thing. (Disclosure I work for Canva, the company which owns remove.bg).…
mvdtnz on HNAhh, for a second I thought https://remove.bg had open-sourced their product (which I've been quite happy with on the few occasions I've used it). Very cool, though!
codethief on HN
rembg
From 1 comment
It is a 2024 model, for comparison https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg/ uses U2-Net which is open source from 2022. There is also https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet (another…
Mathnerd314 on HN
transparent-background
From 1 comment
I've tried many different background removal algorithms and found that InSPyReNet has been the most successful one. I use `transparent-background` on pip a whole bunch and it…
makifoxgirl on HN
imgly background-removal-js
From 1 comment
Hi, nice work. I recently also published a WebGPU version of our browser-only background removal library. It's using the onnx-runtime under the hood. Weights are from isnet. It…
hauschildt on HN
Xenova remove-background-web playground
From 1 comment
Great to have local tools. Here's another one that uses the exact same combination of technologies: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/remove-background-web (Feb 2024)
xnx on HN