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Re: Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

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very cool! I've been having a fun time porting non-LLM models to iOS/Android (recently had some success with making Bonsai's image generation model run on Android) - have you attempted to run any of the workflows on a mobile device at all? Mind if I try?

Please do try, I would love nothing more!

All I ask is you make a PR to https://github.com/feyninc/nobg with your results. We'd love to see what you make, contribute in any way we can, and share onwards.

Re: Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

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post #11
post #10

very cool! I've been having a fun time porting non-LLM models to iOS/Android (recently had some success with making Bonsai's image generation model run on Android) - have you attempted to run any of the workflows on a mobile device at all? Mind if I try?

Please do try, I would love nothing more! All I ask is you make a PR to https://github.com/feyninc/nobg with your results. We'd love to see what you make, contribute in any way we can, and share onwards.

Of course, would be happy to!

Re: Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

#15

Why extend an MIT licensed model's weights (BiRefNet) and release it under a cc-by-nc-4.0 license?

Yep, nobody wants to adopt models with this license because it opens legal questions most users, whether professional or non-professional, don't want to muddy their work with.

Re: Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

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Why extend an MIT licensed model's weights (BiRefNet) and release it under a cc-by-nc-4.0 license?

This pertains to the larger open source licensing discussions that have been happening (as I'm sure you've seen too).

We've released projects under the MIT license before, most notably https://github.com/feyninc/chonkie. While we're not trying to directly monetize on this work, credit goes a long way and helps in other operations.

Recently, attributed usage is shrinking. To be clear, this is not a shrinkage in actual use of our software, just how many people acknowledge that they rely on it.

cc-by-nc is a protection against that. We've been very honest about our work being on top of BiRefNet as we want to extend the original creators the same courtesy. I have no issues if individuals fork/finetune/or otherwise build on top of any open source projects we release, irrespective of license. At minimum, we want acknowledgment if a company chooses to use our software in production.

Re: Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

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Why extend an MIT licensed model's weights (BiRefNet) and release it under a cc-by-nc-4.0 license?

Btw if you do need a permissively licensed model for this task, there are lots out there, e.g.:

https://github.com/KupynOrest/s3od

https://github.com/Tennine2077/PDFNet

https://github.com/PramaLLC/BEN

Re: Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

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How does it stack up against Adobe's model? The advantage Adobe has is there are essentially two options: (1) Select Subject (95% of the time will give you the result you want); (2) Select Person (helps in the edge cases).

The issue I have is, what is the subject? For instance, you have a person sat on a couch. You hit Select Subject. Is the subject the person, or the person plus the couch?

With Adobe's when I only want the person, most of the time Select Subject works, and when it doesn't I can pivot to Select Person, but that has its own problem because it won't include props that the subject is holding, only the person and their clothing.

Re: Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

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How does it stack up against Adobe's model? The advantage Adobe has is there are essentially two options: (1) Select Subject (95% of the time will give you the result you want); (2) Select Person (helps in the edge cases). The issue I have is, what is the subject? For instance, you have a person sat on a couch. You hit Select Subject. Is the subject the person, or the person plus the couch? With Adobe's when I only w…

I'd be very interested in that, too.
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