AI Background Removal Results

This repository contains the results of various AI Background Removal methods/models tested by me.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• My Recommendations
• Results
  • CarveKit
  • Transparent Background
  • BackgroundRemover
  • Rembg
  • BGBye
  • Pinokio
    • BRIA RMBG
    • RMBG-2-Studio
  • ComfyUI
    • BizyAir
    • ComfyUI Essentials
    • MTB Nodes
    • ComfyUI BiRefNet Hugo
    • ComfyUI BiRefNet ll
    • BRIA ComfyUI API Nodes
  • IOPaint
• Model Research/Info
• License

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Introduction

I tested 14 different Github repo implementations/models/implementations/software of AI Background Removal. I tried to stick to FOSS sources.

Three of my test images used I found Here.

If you only want to see the results visit: results.md.

Also if you are hasty you migh wanna have a look at Model Research/Info.

If you wanna go through the whole readme consider viewing the README.md Here as it is a bit wider which presents some of the tables better.

note: the results I present are not definitive, you could perhaps get better results with tweaking the implementation's settings/prompts/parameters etc.

I tested the following:

• https://github.com/OPHoperHPO/image-background-remove-tool - Jump to the results
• https://github.com/plemeri/transparent-background - Jump to the results
• https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover - Jump to the results
• https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg - Jump to the results
• https://github.com/MangoLion/bgbye - Jump to the results
• Pinokio - Jump to the results
  • https://pinokio.computer/item?uri=https://github.com/cocktailpeanutlabs/bria-rmbg - Jump to the results
  • https://pinokio.computer/item?uri=https://github.com/pinokiofactory/RMBG-2-Studio - Jump to the results
• ComfyUI - Jump to the results
  • https://github.com/siliconflow/BizyAir - Jump to the results
  • https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_essentials - Jump to the results
  • https://github.com/melMass/comfy_mtb - Jump to the results
  • https://github.com/MoonHugo/ComfyUI-BiRefNet-Hugo - Jump to the results
  • https://github.com/lldacing/ComfyUI_BiRefNet_ll - Jump to the results
  • https://github.com/Bria-AI/ComfyUI-BRIA-API - Jump to the results
• https://github.com/Sanster/IOPaint - Jump to the results

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My Recommendations

I know people will come here to find the best background removal model or service, but unfortunately there is no "best" for all images. With different images, different models will be better.

Additionally, each model has pros and cons in terms of the set up process & running it. You will have to try each one yourself to see how it goes. Look at the results posted here and find the model that best lines up with your use-case. You may also want to look at Model Research/Info.

I do invite you though to read the rest of the README.md as it is quite interesting and informative and you might find something you wanted. My testing/evaluations was done on a small dataset and with a basic understanding of the different implementations' scripts so it is not conclusive.

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Results

CarveKit | Repo | Implemented Neural Networks

CarveKit works with 4 different Neural Networks (Tracer-B7, U^2-net, BASNet & DeepLabV3).

CarveKit can also be used here on The official website and on a google colab.

Original	Tracer-B7	U^2-net	BASNet	DeepLabV3

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Transparent Background | Repo

Transparent Background is a background removing tool powered by InSPyReNet (ACCV 2022). It has a simple and easy to use GUI.

Normal Results:

Original	Transparent Background

Reversed Results:

Original	Reversed

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BackgroundRemover | Repo

BackgroundRemover works with 3 different background removal methods (u2netp, u2net & u2net_human_seg).

BackgroundRemover can also be used here on The official website.

Original	u2netp	u2net	u2net_human_seg

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Rembg | Repo | Implemented Models

Rembg can work with 15 different Models (u2net, u2netp, u2net_human_seg, u2net_cloth_seg, silueta, isnet-general-use, isnet-anime, sam, birefnet-general, birefnet-general-lite, birefnet-portrait, birefnet-dis, birefnet-hrsod, birefnet-cod & birefnet-massive). I did not include the results for u2net_cloth_seg because it didn't work for any of my test images but you are welcome to go look at them in this results folder in this repo.

Original	u2net	u2netp	u2net_human_seg	silueta	isnet-general-use	isnet-anime	sam	birefnet-general	birefnet-general-lite	birefnet-portrait	birefnet-dis	birefnet-hrsod	birefnet-cod	birefnet-massive

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BGBye | Repo

BGBye uses 10 different open source background removal models.

BGBye can also be used here on The official website or on an alternate site.

Original	Bria RMBG1.4	InSPyReNet	U2Net	Tracer-B7	BASNet	DeepLabV3	U2Net Human	Open RMBG	ISNET-DIS	ISNET-Anime

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Pinokio | Link

Pinokio is a browser that lets you install, run, and manage ANY server application, locally.

BRIA RMBG | Link

Original	BRIA RMBG

RMBG-2-Studio | Link

Original	RMBG-2-Studio

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ComfyUI | Repo

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.

I used quite a few ComfyUI nodes that are used to remove backgrounds.

I have also included my ComfyUI Background Removal Workflow Here, where I use all the background remove nodes and all the available models all at once.

BizyAir | Repo

node name: "Remove Image Background"

Original	Remove Image Background

ComfyUI Essentials | Repo

node name: "RemBG Session"

Original	u2net	u2netp	u2net_human_seg	silueta	isnet-general-use	isnet-anime	sam

MTB Nodes | Repo

node name: "Image Remove Background Rembg"

Original	Image Remove Background Rembg

ComfyUI BiRefNet Hugo | Repo

node name: "BiRefNet"

Original	BiRefNet

ComfyUI BiRefNet ll | Repo

node name: "LoadRembgByBiRefNetModeI"

Original	General	General-Lite	General-Lite-2K	Portrait	Matting	DIS	HRSOD	COD	DIS-TR_TEs	BiRefNet-DIS_ep580	BiRefNet-ep480

BRIA ComfyUI API Nodes | Repo

node name: "Bria RMBG" & "Bria Remove Foreground" (I found the "Bria Remove Foreground" node to be quite impressive).

Original	RMBG-2.0	Bria Remove Foreground

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IOPaint | Repo

Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. Remove any unwanted object, defect, people from your pictures or erase and replace(powered by stable diffusion) any thing on your pictures.

With IOPaint you have 15 background removal models to choose from (RMBG-1.4, RMBG-2.0, u2net, u2netp, u2net_human_seg, u2net_cloth_seg, silueta, isnet-general-use, birefnet-general, birefnet-general-lite, birefnet-portrait, birefnet-dis, birefnet-hrsod, birefnet-cod & birefnet-massive).

Original	RMBG-1.4	RMBG-2.0	u2net	u2netp	u2net_human_seg	silueta	isnet-general-use	birefnet-general	birefnet-general-lite	birefnet-portrait	birefnet-dis	birefnet-hrsod	birefnet-cod	birefnet-massive

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Model Research/Info

I will try to present my findings from newest/best models/implementations to oldest/worst. You can then Ctrl+F > model_name to find everywhere, where that model is used.

RMBG-2.0 | source

RMBG-1.4 | source

BiRefNet | source | models 1 | models 2

BiRefNet massive / BiRefNet DIS / DIS / DIS-TR_TEs / TR_DIS5K_TR_TEs | source | model zoo

Open RMBG / ormbg / Open Remove Background Model | source

BiRefNet portrait | source | model zoo

ISNET DIS | source | model zoo

ISNET general use | source | source 2 | model zoo

BASNet | source

BiRefNet DIS ep580 | source

BiRefNet ep480 | source

BiRefNet Matting | source

BiRefNet General Lite 2K | source

BiRefNet General Lite | source

BiRefNet General | source

BiRefNet HRSOD | source

BiRefNet COD | source

InSPyReNet | source

silueta | source

ISNET anime | source

u2net | source

u2netp | source

u2net_human_seg | source

u2net_cloth_seg | source

Tracer B7 | source | model

DeepLabV3 | source 1 | source 2 | source 3

sam | source

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Hope you found this useful!

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License

Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

AI Background Removal Results © 2025 by Courage (Courage-1984) is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0

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