AI use in Photo Background Removal

[ggarvin]

I saw a dealer who recently thought they could save some money by switching from their provider for backgrounds to a company who professes to do it all with Artificial Intelligence. Sometimes it makes sense to have some level of human intervention rather than just automating it. Setting it and forgetting it rarely works. We (Tru Images) doesn't engage in background removal as a profit center - we are agnostic to who the dealer chooses to use for that - but I hate to see something like this.

 

[Greg_Gifford]

haha - those are SO awful!

 

[BillKVMotorCo]

I saw a dealer who recently thought they could save some money by switching from their provider for backgrounds to a company who professes to do it all with Artificial Intelligence. Sometimes it makes sense to have some level of human intervention rather than just automating it. Setting it and forgetting it rarely works. We (Tru Images) doesn't engage in background removal as a profit center - we are agnostic to who the dealer chooses to use for that - but I hate to see something like this.




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Odd. We used HomeNet's background service for a few years and never saw this issue.

 

[joe.pistell]

camera position

 

[Marc Freedman]

Here's a fun one!

 

[Marc Freedman]

Of course no software is 100.00% perfect. But if it's not significantly better than human editing, you're spending money on the wrong AI service.

The crime isn't bad media. It's simply bad product and bad company QA and support. That's an early stage vehicle AI error. It's bad product because if your software isn't smart enough to center, crop, and place the vehicle where it needs to go, it should go back to kindergarten.

It's bad QA and support because that's a typical error that should have been caught ... and FIXED!

Speaking of smart AI, I invite readers to try our SpinSmart.ai FREE, which we showed at Digital Dealer. Just shoot a one minute video. We not only replace the background, we also create a 3D spin, identify and add hotspots and closeups, upscale the media to 4K, enhance the pictures, generate external photos, and display it all in a customized 4K media player with 8x zoom.

 

[Carsten]

Those give me vertigo.
Plus I am OCD and can't stand seeing the background reflections in many cars that have the back grounds removed.
Light issues.
Shadow issues.

I have PTSD from being a developer.