<story><title>OBS Plugin: Background Removal</title><url>https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwaysanon</author><text>100%. My new boss both has a background that is &amp;#x27;our office open plan area but empty&amp;#x27; (he must have taken a photo when the place actually was empty) when he&amp;#x27;s at home. Plus he now has some greyscale or sepia filter so that he looks like a ye olde ghost for some reason. Not to mention he has headphones where you see these slivers of no background through them around his head.&lt;p&gt;I asked him if he was using some sort of filter and he was like &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t like the color of my face in my camera&amp;quot;. He stands out like a sore thumb in the grid of people in video in larger meetings now too as the only one not in color and with a weird background (others just blur it which I also kind of hate - but less).&lt;p&gt;I find calls with him with the video &lt;i&gt;so&lt;/i&gt; distracting.  I would much rather see his living room or whatever he&amp;#x27;s trying to hide - and it being real - than this weird fake office thing he is trying to do instead...&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is a sign of privilege though that I have a spare bedroom with a white wall behind me I can use without background or blur. I remind myself not everybody is so lucky...</text></item><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>Given how severely imperfect this approach is, I’d much rather people didn’t use it: it’s disconcerting and distracting. Either do it properly (which tends to mean chroma keying, preferably with thoughtful handling of lighting too if you do anything like background &lt;i&gt;replacement&lt;/i&gt; rather than just removal), or don’t do it at all.&lt;p&gt;I have not the faintest clue whether this position of mine is popular or unpopular.&lt;p&gt;Better models may improve matters (the one shown here looks to be decidedly worse than some), but even the best I’ve observed at this time is still something I’d prefer not to be used, because it’s still wrong too much of the time in annoying ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I asked him if he was using some sort of filter and he was like &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t like the color of my face in my camera.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If he was to use OBS with the virtual camera as a middleware between him and the call he could apply a LUT (lookup table) filter to the camera output to correct the color[1]. I do this when I&amp;#x27;m presenting to a lot of people or when a call is going to be recorded. It makes a heck of a difference to the quality.&lt;p&gt;[1] An explainer &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;streamshark.io&amp;#x2F;obs-guide&amp;#x2F;color-grading-lut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;streamshark.io&amp;#x2F;obs-guide&amp;#x2F;color-grading-lut&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>OBS Plugin: Background Removal</title><url>https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwaysanon</author><text>100%. My new boss both has a background that is &amp;#x27;our office open plan area but empty&amp;#x27; (he must have taken a photo when the place actually was empty) when he&amp;#x27;s at home. Plus he now has some greyscale or sepia filter so that he looks like a ye olde ghost for some reason. Not to mention he has headphones where you see these slivers of no background through them around his head.&lt;p&gt;I asked him if he was using some sort of filter and he was like &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t like the color of my face in my camera&amp;quot;. He stands out like a sore thumb in the grid of people in video in larger meetings now too as the only one not in color and with a weird background (others just blur it which I also kind of hate - but less).&lt;p&gt;I find calls with him with the video &lt;i&gt;so&lt;/i&gt; distracting.  I would much rather see his living room or whatever he&amp;#x27;s trying to hide - and it being real - than this weird fake office thing he is trying to do instead...&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is a sign of privilege though that I have a spare bedroom with a white wall behind me I can use without background or blur. I remind myself not everybody is so lucky...</text></item><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>Given how severely imperfect this approach is, I’d much rather people didn’t use it: it’s disconcerting and distracting. Either do it properly (which tends to mean chroma keying, preferably with thoughtful handling of lighting too if you do anything like background &lt;i&gt;replacement&lt;/i&gt; rather than just removal), or don’t do it at all.&lt;p&gt;I have not the faintest clue whether this position of mine is popular or unpopular.&lt;p&gt;Better models may improve matters (the one shown here looks to be decidedly worse than some), but even the best I’ve observed at this time is still something I’d prefer not to be used, because it’s still wrong too much of the time in annoying ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logifail</author><text>&amp;gt; My new boss both has a background that is &amp;#x27;our office open plan area but empty&amp;#x27;  [...]&lt;p&gt;During the first lockdown, a friend of mine sourced a photo of the inside of his local (closed-down) pub, and he used that as a background.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Working from home?   Of course I am.   Honest...&amp;quot;</text></comment>