A Tkinter GUI for BackgroundRemover
BG Remover GUI V1.0
By Steve Shambles (c) April 2023 Source code is under MIT Licence. The executable program is Freeware.
BG Remover GUI is a simple interface for the excellent BackgroundRemover library By Nadermx on GitHub: https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover
Python requirements to run the code: (as far as I can tell, it's all a bit confusing for this noob, pipreqs says just backgroundremover and Pillow!)
Pip3 install torch
pip3 install backgroundremover
pip3 install Pillow
pip3 install ffmpeg-python
Program instructions:
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Click "Load image" button and choose an image using the file selector.
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Choose an A.I model from the drop-down combobox, select "Standard" if you not sure, "Human" if it is a person in the image, or "matte" if both these do not work well. Generally speaking try all 3 to find the best result.
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Now click "Process Image", note the "Please Wait...." in the right panel, most images resolve in 30 seconds or less depending on your machine\memory.
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If you are happy with the new image you can click the "Save Image" button. This will save the image with a unique name using, the name of the A.I model you used joined with a timestamp, eg. "Human_01-Apr-2023-09.53-23s.png" The processed image is saved as a transparent PNG file.
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You can click on the "View Saved Images" button any time and your system file browser should pop up and display your saved images allowing you to copy, delete or view them as you wish.
I wrote this program on a Windows 7 PC using Python V3.67, but I see no reason why it should not work on any Windows or Linux machine, though they remain untested.
As for creating an executable, Pyinstaller works and the exe runs fine on my machine but I think there may be a model missing type problem on a machine that doesnt have Pytorch installed. I tried to isolate the 3 models i'm using but i can't at this time work it out and I'm not sure where to place the files anyway. If I do resolve this I will update the program.
To make your own executable: pip3 pyinstaller then:
pyinstaller bgr_V1.py -n bgr --windowed --onefile
change "bgr_V1.py" to wahatever the source file you are using is named if different of course.
Steve Shambles.