[HN Gopher] Show HN: AI Background Remover
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Show HN: AI Background Remover
Author : vvoyer
Score : 82 points
Date : 2021-07-27 14:53 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.photoroom.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.photoroom.com)
| apurvak wrote:
| pretty cool!
| nadermx wrote:
| On show HN four days ago, open source alternative, that does
| video too.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929397
| vvoyer wrote:
| Nice project @darermx! Just tried it on a few picture and it's
| impressive. To be fair this is not working as great for theses
| pictures as PhotoRoom background remover but still a good
| start!
| ashraymalhotra wrote:
| Congratulations @vvyoer! We are active paid users of
| https://www.unscreen.com/ for video background removal. Do you
| have plans to add support for video background removal anytime
| soon?
| ea016 wrote:
| 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!
| RankingMember wrote:
| Tested with Parked Domain Girl, worked great!
|
| (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/parked-domain-girl)
| adzm wrote:
| Wow the ads on there completely obscure content without any way
| to get them to go away. Halves of paragraphs entirely
| unreadable on mobile Chrome.
| RankingMember wrote:
| Yeah I was reluctant to link to it, it's terrible.
|
| Anyways, here's the result (dear god imgur is terrible now
| too- you have to watch a video ad before uploading):
| https://i.imgur.com/ao5zeSa.png
| PMan74 wrote:
| 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.
| vvoyer wrote:
| 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.
|
| The price for the mobile app is $9.50 per month and there's a
| free version.
| cyberge99 wrote:
| 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 you considered a bulk credits payment model (ex. $19.99
| for 1,000 photo processing credits) for users like me?
| vvoyer wrote:
| We started as a mobile app and the subscription model was
| the obvious choice here. Most of our pro users are hardcore
| PhotoRoom users that will need this on multiple occasions.
|
| Now for one off users this is a good question, especially
| on the web where this could make more sense. I know some
| tools (remove.bg) that have this system so we'll think
| about it.
|
| Thanks!
| guillegette wrote:
| 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.
| jacobn wrote:
| Nice! Not to be all jaded, but there's one of these services
| launching per month (week?) these days. Some are free (but then
| usually poor quality), others cost money (usually with some
| resolution limited freebie or credits-on-signup).
|
| I run https://clippingmagic.com, which launched here on hn eight
| years ago now - time flies [1].
|
| We were #1 until the recent surge in DL-based solutions. It's
| more fun to be the disruptor, but getting disrupted sure brought
| some renewed focus - competition works ;)
|
| Just updated our DL model - old dogs take a while, but we finally
| did get a fully automatic solution including hair, which means
| we're the only option with both good full auto and an editor (on
| desktop, didn't try this one's mobile app - I guess they have
| some editing options there?)
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5682831
| nemosaltat wrote:
| Neat! For the last year or so, I've used remove.bg if I want to
| quickly create a transparent PNG. N=1, photoroom.com does seem to
| work a bit faster, but the results don't seem as accurate and I
| don't see a quick way (on the web version) to make minor
| corrections.
| vvoyer wrote:
| Thanks. We've seen it go both ways: sometimes the results are
| better on PhotoRoom, sometimes they are better on remove.bg. If
| you try the mobile app you'll see that we do have ways to
| easily correct the background remover algorithm.
|
| For example you can adjust the subject selection or just
| scratch the parts you don't want and we'll try to infer the
| bigger picture from theses scratches.
|
| We will bring this functionality to the web very soon. Thanks
| for the feedback!
| dawnerd wrote:
| 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.
| vvoyer wrote:
| That's awesome feedback, our ML engineers will be very proud :)
| cweill wrote:
| 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.
|
| Here's another free option: https://www.remove.bg/
| mandeepj wrote:
| Please change your logo\casing from 'PhotoRoom' to 'Photoroom'.
| It'll look more fluid. There is no need for 'Room' to stand out.
| Let it be low key.
|
| If you have your own reasons for the current styling then you can
| totally ignore my request :-)
| drewbeck wrote:
| 1. Has this ever worked for you before? 2. This is clearly a
| designed logo, which means yes, lots of reasoning went into it.
| 3. Please change your user name to include your entire last
| name, it would be more clear.
| ravenstine wrote:
| Wow! 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 beautifully
| for multiple photos that I thought it would choke on.
|
| _Now to start faking my travel to Paris and Milan on Tinder._
| mattfrommars wrote:
| What kind of tech stacks runs this image removal part?
| thesehands wrote:
| My guess is something very similar to U2Net
| https://github.com/xuebinqin/U-2-Net
| ushakov wrote:
| just used it today for removing white background from my favicon
|
| very neat indeed
| sm4rk0 wrote:
| Bravo! That's great. I've heard about https://www.remove.bg/ but
| this is next level (or two).
| rp8 wrote:
| It didn't work in my picture. It has trees in the background from
| a small hill looking down.
| vvoyer wrote:
| Hey there, could you link me your picture via
| https://imgbb.com/? So I can have a look, thanks!
| Mudface_72 wrote:
| https://vanceai.com/remove-background/
|
| https://www10.lunapic.com/editor/
|
| https://www.remove.bg/ https://socialbook.io/remove-background
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