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Works awesome!!! I went to the web site it powers:

https://BackgroundRemoverAI.com

Uploaded this photo:

https://ibb.co/9bv0662

Selected the option to remove all background elements and nearly instantly got this result:

https://ibb.co/WfFsbqW

While, arguably, the legs are part of Zuckerberg, it is an unusual pose and instead the AI picked the subject in a way that is totally suited for inclusion against another background (for example a montage of various founders). The outline it chose looks great.

It's a pleasing result that shows the power of AI.




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...


Mediapipe is such a mess (but so useful). I wish someone would just extract the main tflite models and make a light wrapper around it on GitHub somewhere




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