This BiRefNet was trained with images in 512x512 for faster and more accurate lower resolution inference.

Performance:

All tested in FP16 mode.

Bilateral Reference for High-Resolution Dichotomous Image Segmentation

Peng Zheng ^1,4,5,6,  Dehong Gao ²,  Deng-Ping Fan ^1*,  Li Liu ³,  Jorma Laaksonen ⁴,  Wanli Ouyang ⁵,  Nicu Sebe ^{6 1} Nankai University  ² Northwestern Polytechnical University  ³ National University of Defense Technology  ⁴ Aalto University  ⁵ Shanghai AI Laboratory  ⁶ University of Trento                     

This repo is the official implementation of "Bilateral Reference for High-Resolution Dichotomous Image Segmentation" (CAAI AIR 2024).

Check the main BiRefNet model repo for more info and how to use it:
https://huggingface.co/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet/blob/main/README.md

Also check the GitHub repo of BiRefNet for all things you may want:
https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet

Acknowledgement:

• Many thanks to @freepik for their generous support on GPU resources for training this model!

Citation

@article{zheng2024birefnet,
  title={Bilateral Reference for High-Resolution Dichotomous Image Segmentation},
  author={Zheng, Peng and Gao, Dehong and Fan, Deng-Ping and Liu, Li and Laaksonen, Jorma and Ouyang, Wanli and Sebe, Nicu},
  journal={CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research},
  volume = {3},
  pages = {9150038},
  year={2024}
}