# cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste

Cut and paste your surroundings using AR

Repository: https://github.com/cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ar-cutpaste
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-03-04T15:48:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2314, "days_push": 1278, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 14569, forks 2015 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:07.246946+00:00)

## What it is
An AR+ML research prototype that lets users capture objects from their physical surroundings with a phone camera and paste them into Photoshop. It consists of a mobile app, a local Python server, and an external salient object detection/background removal service (BASNet).

## Use cases
- cut objects from the real world with a phone and paste them into Photoshop
- remove backgrounds from camera captures using salient object detection
- map a phone camera's screen-pointing position to a desktop display
- experiment with AR capture and ML segmentation pipelines
- prototype mobile-to-desktop AR workflows

## When to choose
- you want to study or extend an AR capture-and-paste research prototype
- you need a reference implementation combining mobile AR, screenpoint tracking, and BASNet background removal
- you're building a similar mobile AR + ML pipeline and want a starting point

## When to avoid
- you need a polished consumer app for cutting and pasting real-world objects (use Clipdrop instead)
- you expect maintained, production-ready software with active support
- you don't have access to Photoshop or a CUDA GPU for the detection service

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: computer-vision, image-processing, machine-learning
- domain: computer-vision, artificial-intelligence, mobile-development, graphics
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: ar, augmented-reality, background-removal, salient-object-detection, photoshop-integration, research-prototype, basnet, mobile-app, mobile

## Member repositories
- cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:07.246946+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:12:28.867986+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:07.246946+00:00, sha 986762c41119)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.