Background Removal / Virtual Green-screen & Low-Light Enhance v1.1.13

We are very happy to announce that a new release is out with installers for all OSs!
Thanks to the diligent work of our contributors we're now set up with a CI pipeline that's robust and end-to-end, and new versions could start coming out much easily and consistently.

What's Changed​

• OBS 28+ support
• Mac M1/2 (arm64) support
• Installers!

In this release

• Upgrade to OBS v27.1.3 (latest) support
• New realtime model Robust Video Matting (https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting)
• Calculate mask every X frame - save on CPU cycles! (set to 2 for a 50% performance gain with unnoticeable quality drop)
• Some internal abstraction of the models to make it easy to add more models in the future
• More advancement on CUDA - but still no stable version... need help on this plz.

Install:

• Windows (64bit): Unzip the obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip file in the OBS directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\obs-studio), for example: > Expand-Archive .\obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\obs-studio' -Force
• Mac OSX: Unzip obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip to /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/. e.g. $ unzip -o obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip -d /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/
• Archlinux: install the package e.g. pacman -U obs-backgroundremoval*.tar.zst

In this release

• Added 2 new lightweight segmentation models: Google Mediapipe "Meet" model, and the "Selfie Segmentation" model, both from https://github.com/PINTO0309/PINTO_model_zoo
• Upgrade to OBS v27.0.1 (following OBS production releases on OSX and Windows)
• Upgrade onnxruntime on OSX to v1.7.2
• Fix issue with RGB vs BGR background color flip

Install:

• Windows (64bit): Unzip the obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip file in the OBS directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\obs-studio), for example: > Expand-Archive .\obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\obs-studio' -Force
• Mac OSX: Unzip obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip to /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/. e.g. $ unzip -o obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip -d /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/
• Archlinux: install the package e.g. pacman -U obs-backgroundremoval*.tar.zst

In this release

• Adding the MODNet segmentation model. Slightly better in segmentation and resources.
• Dropdown to choose model (SINet or MODNet)

Install:

• Windows (64bit): Unzip the obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip file in the OBS directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\obs-studio), for example: > Expand-Archive .\obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\obs-studio\' -Force
• Mac OSX: Unzip obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip to /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/. e.g. $ unzip -o obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip -d /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/

In this release

• Optimized ONNX model with slightly better runtime/resources performance (5-10%)
• Fix to DirectML build (including the DLL)

Install:

• Windows (64bit): Unzip the obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip file in the OBS directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\obs-studio)
• Mac OSX: Unzip obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip to /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/. e.g. $ unzip -o obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip -d /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/

In this release
- Better versioning of the plugin
- GPU support on Windows through DirectML (any available GPU)

Install:
- Windows (64bit): Unzip the `obs-backgroundremoval-win64.zip` file in the OBS directory (e.g. `C:\Program Files\obs-studio`)
- Mac OSX: Unzip `obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip` to `/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/`. e.g. `$ unzip -o obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip -d /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/`

In this release

• Fixing the problem of down&up scaling the original image. Instead - apply the mask to the original image size, without reducing its resolution.

This release features

• Omni color space handling - fixing crashes due to unsupported color spaces
• Slightly better performance
• Windows install .zip
• Arch linux package

Let me know of any problems, or better yet - help me solve them! #opensource

I've sorted out the build on Linux and Windows, so now it supports all 3 major OSs.

The binaries to install it are in the Github Releases page: https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval/releases

I also added support for multiple color spaces. Although still facing some problems with YUV 4:2:0 spaces (e.g. NV12 and I420). Other color spaces seem to be working.