Author of project here. Waking up and seeing my project on the front of HN blew me away, thank you everyone. I will go ahead and update the about us on the page on the website.
FYI... the golden value in FG.BG separation is the single pixel bleed between the two. Unless the new background is of the same value as the old, then this would show up as a light or a dark fringe. At erode filter can remove this in hard-edged objects, but an erode would destroy fuzzy objects like hair. This is why compositors often separate soft and hard selections.
This project looks promising!
Your pricing is also attractive, at about half of Unscreen's API. Plus you're open source which is another bonus point.
However, your pricing structure is confusing to me: what does "commercial license for 10" mean when pricing for developers? If we want to integrate your tool in an app, then we would need to have commercial licenses for all generated content, in order to pass that on to the end user. Can you clarify that point?
Also, your outputs all seem to have all-white backgrounds. Would it be possible to specify an image or hex color code that would be used as the new background?
Thanks for pointing out how confusing the pricing page was for developers. I went ahead and fixed that. In regards to the background color, it should come out clear. Depending on your viewer I guess it's white. I can put those features on the road map. Have something similar for videos already, so I presume you mean images.
I am a painter who has collaborated with computer vision engineers on style transfer between paintings (aesthetic exemplars) and photographs. One of the things that distinguishes a painter from a camera operator is their depth aware organisation of colour contrasts. I use plural as there are many forms of colour contrast. I believe that effective Foreground-background separation has greatly underestimated potential to impact the future of the photographically acquired image. More power to you sir.
