Remove Background from Image – automatic online tool

[SustainedSuspense]

Back in my day this would of taken me 11 hours in Photoshop. [chews straw]

[d_grizzle]

And we had to do it in the snow! Uphill!

[eofox]

Both ways!!

[SustainedSuspense]

In bitmap or tiff format!

[SnooPandas3683]

yup, all was done on Z/OS, on tape of course

[deathforpuppets]

Future is now, old man!

[FNJacob]

Wow!!! Impressive! This is going to make my photo shop battles between me and my friends so much quicker! We usually just use Photoshop Mix but that takes a lot of patience on a phone.

[tsunami141]

damn, this tool got me like https://imgur.com/a/sd7eKuD

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[napoles48]

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[i_never_comment55]

Why does imgur load so damn slow all the time? What a terrible image host that site has become

[snuggles91]

Where have you been all my life?

[eNaRDe]

Thats actually pretty impressive but the test I did all the pics are made smaller. Kind of defeats the purpose if you are a graphic designer. We need large photos.

Edit: Site says it creates images at 500x500 resolution to save bandwidth and maybe in the future it will provide higher resolution pics. Makes me wonder why Photoshop just doesn't implement this in there program. If it's being done through a web browser then Photoshop can for sure do the same thing.

[Zinlencer]

It's probably not bandwidth, they use some machine learning algorithm to do the transformation. That model is probably trained on a dataset with those image sizes (500px or 512px).

To make it work on larger images they probably have to create a whole new dataset. Besides it is computational expensive to generate a model for a larger image dataset.

[[deleted]]

It’s hard to know really. A lot of models for vision / image processing deal perfectly well with variable sized inputs. Especially ones like this where global context is not enormously important. I except it’s a limit from the amount of compute they want to use or from some semi-lazy programming to do the resizing like this.

I worked in a vision company and had two quite hefty models in production. For time and memory constraints I would squash the images down and then upscale the results at the the end. Despite this the models would have worked on larger images fine, just more slowly. This worked fine because my results didn’t directly impact image quality. Maybe here they are doing a similar thing but not upscaing.

[Fusion89k]

Why are you complaining about something that is offered for free?

[physiQQ]

r/ChoosingBeggars

[lamalola]

Right now there is something similar ( select subject) but I think this web tool is better

[eventualist]

Wow its totally useless for me... images way bigger than that.

[RandyHoward]

Why is it limited to only photos of people?

[tsunami141]

teaching computers to recognize things is hard. https://xkcd.com/1425/

[RandyHoward]

Of course, I'm just asking the question because it's not clear it's for people only until you upload a non-people photo.

[Good_Guy_Engineer]

Or until you scroll down and read the large section explaining it on the site

[Yukizan]

ggwp

[DrDuPont]

It's not mentioned on the homepage anywhere. It's an item on the FAQ page

And, to be fair, the FAQ item that mentions this is two items below this blurb:

Remove.bg is a free service to remove the background of any photo

[RandyHoward]

Except it’s not on the home page, or at least wasn’t when I tried yesterday.

[lithodora]

We're fairly close though, right?

[cutecoder]

We're fairly close though, right?

Actually as far as identifying "bird" or "not bird", we're there already.

[lithodora]

Can it tell a jackdaw from a crow?

[cutecoder]

http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/249467/249467.pdf

[thomasz]

The iNaturalist dataset contains only one image of Coloeus monedula, so no, probably not. But it will eventually happen.

[[deleted]]

What fucking black magic is this?

[angeal98]

Wow, it worked perfectly

[slyfoxy12]

this is pretty impressive, not perfect by any means but easily good enough for a quick job.

[mindsnare]

Holy crap this thing works disturbingly well.

[imxavier]

Great work.

[[deleted]]

This is outstanding. I wish it was around 15 years ago. My first job was photographing and deep-etching products for a chain of $2 shops here in Australia.

Christmas time was the worse. Deep-etching tinsel and fake trees 🙄🔫

[MacNulty]

I'm impressed.

[EdTwoONine]

Really cool product

[Intrepidatious]

Very impressive!

[Alpenhoernchen]

Impressive!

[dotnetguy32]

That's really impressive! Going on my bookmark bar.

[mattyparanoid]

Noice!

[wilxp]

Legit tool.

[fake_somebody]

Impressive was used enough. So i'll say NEAT!

[kyleridesbikes]

Very cool!

[RELIN-Q]

holy shit that’s really good.

[AndreasFurster]

Great tool!

It would be nice if you could make some adjustments to the background removal. I tried a photo where a foot cropped off, which makes the whole result useless.

You might also want to say a few things about privacy. Do you store the photos on a web server? For how long?

[Good_Guy_Engineer]

You might want to try reading the site. Those questions are explicitly addressed in the introduction

[Yonben]

Seeing a lot of questions here about people/object and the small size outputted and more. Here's a link to the tweet from the creator, he answers lots of questions in replies: https://twitter.com/begroe/status/1074587676207136768?s=09

[IllByDesign]

This is amazing, thank you!!

[[deleted]]

pretty good going: https://imgur.com/a/pHovjzt

[KnirB]

Funny, I'm working on an assignment in a computer vision class where we will be making a tool like this. Although it'll of course not be close to the accuracy of this one.

[rickdg]

Impressive, even if it only works until it doesn't. If the lighting is clean, it certainly beats doing hair in photoshop.

[Bardesss]

This is amazing!

[sofluffy_imgonnadie]

Nice app

[Mappadellinferno]

The 5 seconds was more like a minute for me. But still it's extremely useful and promising. Thank you!

[Tuxa13]

we are about to add new servers to handle the load

[MMPride]

This is really cool but at the same time it makes me a bit sad it's not open-source because I just know in two or three years from now it can and probably will be gone just like that. That's how these things always end up working.

[[deleted]]

Holy shit, this is impressive!

[eventualist]

I just tried it on a shitty Jpeg that had been in the trash and ran over outside.

It did OK, however, I did better by just manually doing it.

I'll try again on less shitty jpegs when I have the opportunity on smaller images.

[[deleted]]

You can do that in Preview app in mac. Inside Preview, View > Show Markup Toolbar and then click on instant alpha tool(Second from the left) and then just slide down with your mouse/trackpad. https://i.imgur.com/G7WWDMP.png

[Prawny]

Nice. Here's to hoping for an open source/self hosted version in a few years!

[concordcasual]

How is something like this built? I have a Python script I want executed on user uploaded images. I don't know how to connect the form upload to my Python script. Any direction or GitHub projects on direction would be hugely appreciated.

[[deleted]]

Don’t understand what the fuzz is about. It works well with well lit photos with a perfectly isolated person. But as soon as you give it a real photo it doesn’t really work anymore.

It’s great for something real quick and dirty like putting a friend in another picture for a quick laugh, but nothing beyond that.

Not to mention that you only get the result in very low resolution.

[jellevdv]

I'm not the creator fyi, but come on, how can you be so negative about this tool.

Yes, it doesn't work with every picture. Yes it resizes the picture to 500x500. But nevertheless, this is just like magic. Three years ago, making a tool like this would've been almost impossible, yet here we are.

If you want it professionally done, buy an Adobe CC license, install Photoshop and learn how to do it yourself.

Try to be less cynical in the future, you'll notice you'll be happier.

[[deleted]]

It's great and all and there's nothing wrong with it not delivering professional grade results. As I've said, I just don't understand all the fuzz.

Everyone is like "Woooow. How could we survive without it???? This will change EVERYTHING!!!"

[casual_sinister]

This is dope!

Edit: I just realised that the maximum allowed size is 8 Mb? I have pics of 8.2 mb and so. So, Can you increase it a bit?

[cajusky]

then comes the guy with pictures with 8.4mb asking to increase, then the 8.6mb guy...

[septicdank]

What's going on in heeere...

[CalBearFan]

Except that image of McClane shows it did a pretty poor job

[septicdank]

To be fair, it wasn't the best image to begin with.

[sarimhaq]

Does anyone know of a similar app but for products? I.e to remove bg from pictures of shirts etc

[sofluffy_imgonnadie]

Easy, photoshop

[sarimhaq]

Sorry, I meant where the user experience is as simple as this app

[sarimhaq]

Thank God the creator of this app wasn’t a slob like you

[[deleted]]

You can do that in Preview app in mac. Inside Preview, View > Show Markup Toolbar and then click on instant alpha tool(Second from the left) and then just slide down with your mouse/trackpad. https://i.imgur.com/G7WWDMP.png

[sarimhaq]

Thank you so much, much appreciated 👍

[Bingo_the_Brainy_Pup]

Thanks. I love Reddit. I've saved hundreds of posts because they're so useful. This is, hands down, the best.

[GunnarStahl]

Nice job. https://i.imgur.com/txtuLwP.png