Photo editing2023–2026
BRIA AI · Israel
BRIA's background removal, trained on licensed photos. Soft edges, hair, transparency. Video versions available. Business use requires a paid agreement.
- Cutting products out onto a white background
- Staff and expert photos without background
- Background removal in video
- Sizes
- 44M – 220M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editing2025–2026
S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University · Singapore
Cuts a person out of video with a precise alpha mask, including hair and edges, without a green screen. Needs a first-frame mask, for example from SAM.
- Background replacement in video without chroma key
- Cutting out a person for editing and effects
- Preparing videos for advertising and social media
- Sizes
- about 35M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingGGUF2024–2025
Nankai University · China
An open MIT-licensed model for precise object segmentation and background removal. RMBG-2.0 is built on it. Versions for 2K and for hair and semi-transparent edges.
- Bulk background removal from product photos
- Precise masks for design and print
- Cutting out people with hair for advertising
- Sizes
- about 220M (lightweight lite versions available)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editing2025
ByteDance Seed · China
ByteDance's video and photo restoration and upscaling. SeedVR2 does it in a single step, so it is noticeably faster than similar models. Commercial-friendly license.
- Upscaling photos and video to 2K–4K
- Restoring old videos and photos
- Enhancing user photos before publishing
- Sizes
- 3B – 7B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Photo editing2024–2025
Prama LLC · USA
A background removal model focused on difficult edges: hair, fur, fine details. The open version is MIT-licensed and can process video.
- Cutting out products and people from photos
- Background removal in video
- Preparing photos for a catalog
- Sizes
- about 95M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Video2022–2024
hzwer (Zhewei Huang) and co-authors · China
Generates intermediate frames: turns 24–30 fps into 60 fps and more and makes smooth slow motion. Versions 4.24+ smooth out video from generative models well.
- Increasing video frame rate
- Smooth slow-motion video
- Smoothing clips from AI generators
- Sizes
- lightweight model (size not stated on the model card)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editing2024
Jasper AI · USA
A FLUX add-on for upscaling small and blurry images with detail reconstruction. Popular, but under the non-commercial FLUX dev license.
- Upscaling small images with detail reconstruction
- Enhancing generated images
- Upscaling pilots for a catalog
- Sizes
- add-on for FLUX.1 dev 12B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Photo editingNot maintained2023–2024
Shanghai AI Laboratory (OpenMMLab) and Tsinghua University · China
All-round photo inpainting: remove an object, insert a new one from a description, change a shape or extend the frame beyond its edges.
- Removing and replacing objects in photos
- Extending the frame to a required format
- Inserting a product or detail from a text description
- Sizes
- based on SD 1.5
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingNot maintained2024
Lvmin Zhang (author of ControlNet) · USA
Changes lighting in a photo: relights an object or person from a description or to match a given background, so a cut-out looks natural.
- Matching product lighting to a new background
- Studio lighting for portraits without a reshoot
- Consistent lighting style across a catalog
- Sizes
- based on SD 1.5
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingNot maintained2024
XPixel Group (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai AI Lab and others) · China
Powerful SDXL-based restoration of badly damaged photos: it recreates details rather than just upscaling. Hardware-hungry; non-commercial license.
- Restoring old and blurry photos
- Upscaling with detail reconstruction
- Archive restoration pilots
- Sizes
- based on SDXL, plus LLaVA 13B for captions
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Photo editingNot maintained2023
Alibaba DAMO Academy · China
Colorizes black-and-white photos in natural colors. A lightweight model with a commercial-friendly license; a compact tiny version is available.
- Colorizing archival photos
- Color versions of historical photos for publications
- Family photo restoration service
- Sizes
- DDColor-T (tiny) and DDColor-L
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingNot maintained2022–2023
Taehoon Kim (POSTECH) · South Korea
A salient object detection model and the ready-made transparent-background tool built on it: removes backgrounds from photos, video and webcam with one command.
- Batch background removal from photos
- Replacing the background with a color or blur
- Background removal in video
- Sizes
- small (based on Swin-B)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingNot maintained2022–2023
XPixel Group (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and others) · China
Transformer-based photo upscaling, more accurate than SwinIR on fine details. Versions for real noisy photos and a lightweight HAT-S.
- Upscaling product and interior photos
- Preparing images for print
- Sharpening archival photos
- Sizes
- 9M – 40M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingNot maintained2023
S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University · Singapore
One of the first Stable Diffusion-based photo upscalers: restores realistic details. Non-commercial license.
- Upscaling photos with detail reconstruction
- Research restoration pilots
- Comparison with classic upscalers
- Sizes
- based on SD 2.1
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Photo editingNot maintained2022–2023
S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University · Singapore
Popular face restoration for old and blurry photos; also works on video. Has face inpainting and colorization modes. Non-commercial license.
- Restoring faces in old photos
- Enhancing faces in low-quality video
- Family archive restoration pilots
- Sizes
- small, up to 0.1B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingGGUFNot maintained2021–2022
Tencent ARC Lab · China
The classic for upscaling photos 2–4x while cleaning noise and compression artifacts. Lightweight, runs even on a CPU. Versions for drawings and anime.
- Upscaling old and small product photos
- Cleaning images of compression artifacts
- Preparing images for print
- Sizes
- about 17M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingNot maintained2021–2022
Tencent ARC Lab · China
Proven face restoration for old and compressed photos, with a commercial-friendly license. Often paired with Real-ESRGAN; the most used versions are 1.3 and 1.4.
- Restoring faces in old photos
- Enhancing avatars and profile photos
- Restoration in a photo shop or online service
- Sizes
- small, up to 0.1B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingGGUFNot maintained2021
Samsung AI Center Moscow (with Skoltech) · Russia
Removes unwanted objects, text and watermarks from photos with clean background fill. Lightweight and fast; still the standard for this task.
- Removing price tags, people and clutter from photos
- Cleaning interior and real estate photos
- Removing text and dates from archival photos
- Sizes
- about 51M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Photo editingNot maintained2021
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
A transformer model for upscaling, denoising and removing JPEG artifacts from photos. Lightweight and proven; often embedded in other systems.
- Photo upscaling
- Image denoising
- Removing compression artifacts
- Sizes
- about 12M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
