BiRefNet

pip install -qr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet/main/requirements.txt

# Load BiRefNet with weights
from transformers import AutoModelForImageSegmentation
birefnet = AutoModelForImageSegmentation.from_pretrained('ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet', trust_remote_code=True)

# Download codes
git clone https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet.git
cd BiRefNet

# Use codes locally
from models.birefnet import BiRefNet

# Load weights from Hugging Face Models
birefnet = BiRefNet.from_pretrained('ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet')

# Use codes and weights 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)

# Imports
from PIL import Image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import torch
from torchvision import transforms
from models.birefnet import BiRefNet

birefnet = ... # -- BiRefNet should be loaded with codes above, either way.
torch.set_float32_matmul_precision(['high', 'highest'][0])
birefnet.to('cuda')
birefnet.eval()
birefnet.half()

def extract_object(birefnet, imagepath):
    # Data settings
    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').half()

    # Prediction
    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

# Visualization
plt.axis("off")
plt.imshow(extract_object(birefnet, imagepath='PATH-TO-YOUR_IMAGE.jpg')[0])
plt.show()

import requests
import base64
from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image


YOUR_HF_TOKEN = 'xxx'
API_URL = "xxx"
headers = {
	"Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(YOUR_HF_TOKEN)
}

def base64_to_bytes(base64_string):
    # Remove the data URI prefix if present
    if "data:image" in base64_string:
        base64_string = base64_string.split(",")[1]

    # Decode the Base64 string into bytes
    image_bytes = base64.b64decode(base64_string)
    return image_bytes

def bytes_to_base64(image_bytes):
    # Create a BytesIO object to handle the image data
    image_stream = BytesIO(image_bytes)

    # Open the image using Pillow (PIL)
    image = Image.open(image_stream)
    return image

def query(payload):
	response = requests.post(API_URL, headers=headers, json=payload)
	return response.json()

output = query({
	"inputs": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-1229892983-square.jpg",
	"parameters": {}
})

output_image = bytes_to_base64(base64_to_bytes(output))
output_image

@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}
}