đ BiRefNet
BiRefNet is a model for high - resolution dichotomous image segmentation. It has achieved SOTA performance on tasks such as image segmentation, salient object detection, and camouflaged object detection.
đ Quick Start
0. Install Packages:
pip install -qr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet/main/requirements.txt
1. Load BiRefNet:
Use codes + weights from HuggingFace
Only use the weights on HuggingFace -- Pro: No need to download BiRefNet codes manually; Con: Codes on HuggingFace might not be latest version (I'll try to keep them always latest).
from transformers import AutoModelForImageSegmentation
birefnet = AutoModelForImageSegmentation.from_pretrained('zhengpeng7/BiRefNet-portrait', trust_remote_code=True)
Use codes from GitHub + weights from HuggingFace
Only use the weights on HuggingFace -- Pro: codes are always latest; Con: Need to clone the BiRefNet repo from my GitHub.
# Download codes
git clone https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet.git
cd BiRefNet
from models.birefnet import BiRefNet
birefnet = BiRefNet.from_pretrained('zhengpeng7/BiRefNet-portrait')
Use codes from GitHub + weights from HuggingFace
Only use the weights and codes both locally.
import torch
from utils import check_state_dict
birefnet = BiRefNet(bb_pretrained=False)
state_dict = torch.load(PATH_TO_WEIGHT, map_location='cpu')
state_dict = check_state_dict(state_dict)
birefnet.load_state_dict(state_dict)
Use the loaded BiRefNet for inference
from PIL import Image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import torch
from torchvision import transforms
from models.birefnet import BiRefNet
birefnet = ...
torch.set_float32_matmul_precision(['high', 'highest'][0])
birefnet.to('cuda')
birefnet.eval()
def extract_object(birefnet, imagepath):
image_size = (1024, 1024)
transform_image = transforms.Compose([
transforms.Resize(image_size),
transforms.ToTensor(),
transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406], [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])
])
image = Image.open(imagepath)
input_images = transform_image(image).unsqueeze(0).to('cuda')
with torch.no_grad():
preds = birefnet(input_images)[-1].sigmoid().cpu()
pred = preds[0].squeeze()
pred_pil = transforms.ToPILImage()(pred)
mask = pred_pil.resize(image.size)
image.putalpha(mask)
return image, mask
plt.axis("off")
plt.imshow(extract_object(birefnet, imagepath='PATH-TO-YOUR_IMAGE.jpg')[0])
plt.show()
⨠Features
- Multiple Application Scenarios: BiRefNet can be applied to various image segmentation tasks, including background removal, mask generation, dichotomous image segmentation, camouflaged object detection, and salient object detection.
- SOTA Performance: It has achieved state - of - the - art performance on three tasks (DIS, HRSOD, and COD).
đ Documentation
This repo is the official implementation of "Bilateral Reference for High - Resolution Dichotomous Image Segmentation" (CAAI AIR 2024).
Visit our GitHub repo: https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet for more details -- codes, docs, and model zoo!
This repo contains the weights of BiRefNet proposed in our paper, which has achieved the SOTA performance on three tasks (DIS, HRSOD, and COD).
Go to my GitHub page for BiRefNet codes and the latest updates: https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet :)
Try our online demos for inference:
- Online Single Image Inference on Colab:

- Online Inference with GUI on Hugging Face with adjustable resolutions:

- Inference and evaluation of your given weights:

đ License
This project is under the MIT license. You can check the details here.
Acknowledgement:
- Many thanks to @fal for their generous support on GPU resources for training better BiRefNet models.
- Many thanks to @not - lain for his help on the better deployment of our BiRefNet model on HuggingFace.
Citation
@article{BiRefNet,
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},
year={2024}
}
Authors
1 Nankai University 2 Northwestern Polytechnical University 3 National University of Defense Technology 4 Aalto University 5 Shanghai AI Laboratory 6 University of Trento
Links
Sample Images
DIS-Sample_1 |
DIS-Sample_2 |
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This BiRefNet for standard dichotomous image segmentation (DIS) is trained on DIS - TR and validated on DIS - TEs and DIS - VD.