# royshil/obs-backgroundremoval

An OBS plugin for removing background in portrait images (video), making it easy to replace the background when recording or streaming.

Repository: https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/obs-backgroundremoval
Homepage: https://royshil.github.io/obs-backgroundremoval/
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: obs, obs-plugin, libobs, mac-osx, background-segmentation, obs-studio, onnx, onnxruntime, plugin, computer-vision, image-segmentation, obs-studio-plugin, obsproject, onnx-runtime, onnxruntime-gpu, video-segmentation
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:52:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1967, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 38, "gap_med": 4.5, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4492, forks 286 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:51.351287+00:00)

## What it is
An OBS Studio plugin that removes and replaces the background in portrait video using ONNX-based machine learning segmentation, acting as a virtual green screen. It also supports low-light enhancement and depth-of-field effects.

## Use cases
- remove background from webcam without a green screen
- replace background while streaming on OBS
- blur or replace background in video calls
- enhance low-light webcam footage
- apply depth of field effect to portrait video
- segment any object from video background

## When to choose
- you stream or record with OBS Studio and need a virtual green screen
- you want GPU-accelerated background segmentation via ONNX Runtime
- you need low-light enhancement or depth-of-field effects in OBS

## When to avoid
- you don't use OBS Studio for recording or streaming
- you need background removal in a different app like Zoom or Teams
- your hardware can't run real-time ML inference

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, computer-vision, machine-learning, video-processing
- domain: computer-vision, media, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: obs-studio, background-removal, virtual-green-screen, onnx, image-segmentation, streaming, video-conferencing, low-light-enhancement, video, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- royshil/obs-backgroundremoval (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.351287+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 2026-08-29T18:20:28.326419+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.351287+00:00, sha 31d3eac74727)
  - homepage: https://royshil.github.io/obs-backgroundremoval/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:06:33.857817+00:00, sha 6f1d288f7b18)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.