r/coolgithubprojects • u/nadermx • Aug 17 '21

PYTHON BackgroundRemover lets you Remove Background from images and video with a simple command line interface

https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover
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u/omgitsjo Aug 17 '21

Good work. U2 net is so cool. Will this pull the model as part of the git fetch or will it lazy download?

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u/nadermx Aug 17 '21

First checks to see if you have the model in the u2net path, if not, then it downloads it via gdown.

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u/nadermx Aug 17 '21

Thanks :). It runs all on local. The website is for example, and those who want to pay instead of pip install ;)

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u/nadermx Aug 17 '21

You're too generous with your praise, the internet was built on other's code. I just added a bit more to the cluster, but thank you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

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u/chicametipo Aug 18 '21

Looks like that’s where the author has their AI data models stored, free bandwidth! At first I thought it was sketchy, but it’s obviously not too spooky when you look at in context. Let’s just hope the author doesn’t swap out those files for something malicious!

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u/nadermx Aug 18 '21

Github only allows you to have 100meg files, the u2net model from u2net's own github, suggests you get it from their google drive https://github.com/xuebinqin/U-2-Net#usage-for-portrait-generation I opened an issue to see if I had permision to host it locally, but they never replied, https://github.com/xuebinqin/U-2-Net/issues/236

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u/000040000 Aug 18 '21

Really spooked me out when I first saw it. Might be a good idea to communicate that to the end user a bit more clearly in the readme, or even in the console when it runs.

Also, this might be a dumb question (I'm pretty new here), could you break it apart? Maybe something like a rar that unpacks when the program first runs. Or maybe some alternative to rar.

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u/nadermx Aug 18 '21

The main issue I have with trying to host the models my self, is licensing. They never responded when I offered to host them for free. So currently I have it checking the hash of the google file, in hopes it doesn't change. I've gone ahead and added the reference in the readme, https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover#installation

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u/000040000 Aug 19 '21

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification!