Project not maintained, many bugs fixed but limited functionality

[M0n4GPT]

I’m not sure why this project has so many stars, but it’s clear that it is no longer actively maintained or updated by the author. I had to fix a lot of issues just to get it running. Here’s what I’ve done:

1. Set up a TensorFlow 1.15 environment on Colab.
2. Solved the issue where the !cd watermark-removal command did not work on Colab.
3. Fixed the path issue for the mask in utils/istock/landscape.
4. Addressed the ValueError in preprocess_image.py at line 42 where assert image.shape == preprocessed_mask_image was causing problems.

After fixing all these issues, I was able to get an output, but I noticed that it only removes the "istock" watermark. I was not able to get my own mask.png. This is something that should be clearly mentioned in the documentation, ideally in the "Principle" section, rather than only discovering it after resolving multiple version-related issues.

It would be great if the author could provide some updates or at least clarify the necessary requirements for this to work with other masks beyond "istock," and also update the project to support TensorFlow 2.x versions for Python 3.8+.

[ToiYeuTien]

After all your efforts, I think you should switch to using this.
https://github.com/YaoFANGUK/video-subtitle-remover/tree/main

[M0n4GPT]

After all your efforts, I think you should switch to using this. https://github.com/YaoFANGUK/video-subtitle-remover/tree/main

Too bad I do not have Nvidia graphics cards for now, but that's still a good point. Thank you!