2023 Author: Bryan Walter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 22:24
The developers of the Do Something Good design studio have introduced the Bye Bye Camera app, which automatically removes people from photos. The application is based on the open technology for recognition of objects YOLO (You Only Look Once) and tools for filling out cut fragments from Adobe. More details about the new product are reported by the TechCrunch portal.
Algorithms for working with images have long been used to improve the captured images. Depending on the technologies underlying them, they are able to improve quality and remove noise with varying efficiency, add missing parts, and also retouch photos right in the process of shooting.
There are also special technologies that allow you to remove objects from pictures, filling the vacated places based on what is happening around. The new application is based on such technologies. It is based on the YOLO algorithm, which is trained on several thousand images from the COCO dataset and is able to effectively determine the outlines of an object (for Bye Bye Camera - a person), due to which recognition occurs. After the person is cut out, the vacant space is filled based on what is happening in the image around him: this part is handled by the context-aware fill technology from Adobe, which is also available in their After Effects program. Bye Bye Camera removes people, but other objects, as well as animals, remain in the picture.
The application is available for download in the AppStore, it is not yet known whether a version of Bye Bye Camera will be released for mobile devices based on Android.
From the editor
We tried the Bye Bye Camera app, and the first test showed that, at least with the figures of people from a long distance (in this case, from the balcony of the fourth floor), the application does not cope well, and also cleans cars for some reason. The latter, by the way, turns out to be quite high quality.
This is not the first technologically interesting Do Something Good project. Last year we wrote about Humans Not Invited - the so-called reverse captcha, the images on which, according to the creators, can be recognized by “only a robot”: if an attempt to decrypt the captcha is unsuccessful, the system does not allow it to enter the site, concluding that the user is a human.
