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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by pietroglyph on Monday December 17, 2018 @07:51PM (#18703677)
Very impressive! It has some issues with uncommon hats though (which isn't too surprising):

Original: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/xrichar...

Background removed: https://www.remove.bg/system/uploads/image/processed/1c5f1c6...

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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by btown on Monday December 17, 2018 @09:09PM (#18704007)
I feel like RMS would be positively tickled to know that his hat had broken a commercial machine learning API.
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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by ndnxhs on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @05:48AM (#18705679)
And disappointed that his photos were fed to it.
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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by jjeaff on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:01PM (#18704225)
If I was asked to cut the background out of that photo, I also would have been confused about that big circle behind his head.
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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by kawsper on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:05AM (#18704826)
It's Saint IGNUcius that is on that picture, he is a saint in the church of Emacs, and the halo on his head is an old disk.
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Re:Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool by WalterGR on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @08:39PM (#18712326)
The drive-by downvotes on HN have truly gotten out of control.

HN needs to again raise the minimum karma required to downvote.

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