Background Removal - Portrait Segmentation

Background Removal - Portrait Segmentation v0.4.0

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Supported Bit Versions
  1. 64-bit
Source Code URL
https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval
Minimum OBS Studio Version
27.0.0
Supported Platforms
  1. Windows
  2. Mac OS X
  3. Linux
This plugin makes it easy to replace the background in portrait images and video to create a virtual green screen. It uses a neural network to predict the mask of the portrait and remove the background pixels. It doesn't require a GPU and works in all OSs!
It's easily composable with other OBS plugins to replace the background with e.g. an image, a blurred background or a transparent color to create an overlay.

Demo
demo.gif


Blurred Background or Background Image
Add a chroma key to make the plugin make a transparent background, then add in the back a blurred view of the same camera or an image source.
bg_removal_blur.gif


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Author
royshilkrot
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Latest updates

  1. v0.4.0 - OBS v27.1.3 and new RVM model

    In this release Upgrade to OBS v27.1.3 (latest) support New realtime model Robust Video Matting...

  2. v0.3.0 - New models! OBS v27!

    In this release Added 2 new lightweight segmentation models: Google Mediapipe "Meet" model...

  3. v0.2.4 Beta - MODNet model

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Super Alex
the plugin helped me for my videos and my calls is fine the excellent plugin
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A
In the portable version, you cannot call plugins. Any solution?
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A
Hi there. Works pretty well for me. Can confirm the CPU usage, but not a real issue imo.
However I'm struggling with one thing: Since it's a video filter, I can only apply it directly to the camera source. This means once I've applied it, it's applied to all the copies of the camera source too. Since I would like to use the camera in another scene, but without the background removal, I'm running into an issue here. Applying the filter to a group or a scene doesn't work, since that only allows for effect filters. Do you have any suggestion on how to bypass this? Thank you very much!
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B
It works but there are some points that should be fixed.
1. On a low end machine with 6GB ramit destroys the stream, it is laggy
2. On my High end machine (i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz 2.30 GH with 16GB) the touchpad stops responding in OBS. I am running windows 11. When using a normal mouse it wil work
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G
It works goot, but it's not usable. The CPU (Intel I9-9900K) rises from around 2% to around 40%. The rendering time rises from 0,7-1ms to arond 130ms and the FPS dropping from 60fps to around 7-8fps.
The result with this plug is fine, but with an fps drop from 60fps to around 7-8fps means, that it is not usable acually.
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E
There might be room for improvement (e.g. CPU load). I used MS Teams Meeting to create green background and captured screen with Chroma Key filter. This workaround consumed more resources and the result was only slightly better.
=>it might not be perfect but it's almost on the level of the feature from Microsoft -> clearly Excellent:)
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Nocturnal Lunacy
It works great. But it also uses 40% CPU. When switch to GPU it still uses 40% cpu. Turn it off and obs cpu usage goes to 3%.
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R
not perfect..

Reasons:
1. I don't know how, but most Video meeting Software does it better (Developers here wont have a professional Budget and Team - I am just objective). "Xsplit Vcam" in the free model has better BG removal, but it is limited to 720p and has a very present watermark.

2. with activated BG Removal, my CPU monitor inside OBS raises from 9% to 63% with "calculate mask every" 1 Frame, or 54% with every second frame.

3. Also, my webcam seems to loose FPS if BG Removal is activated.

I use:
LG 920C Webcam with OBS 27.2.1 64-bit.
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G
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for helping me break my dependence on ChromaCam and their 30fps limit...

Grabbed a logitech brio and the logitech litra glow and the background removal works fantastic.

I will say that in low-light situations the background removal will struggle. But that is going to be the same for any virtual background... Do yourself a favor, grab a diffused light source and help your camera out... you'll be surprised at the difference it makes.

I live in an apartment in queens and a physical green screen is not an option. Thank you royshilkrot, and also, f*ck chromacam...
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D
Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all for me. Just crashes OBS when I try to select it. I'm using Linux if that means anything. Disappointing.
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