# zuruoke/watermark-removal

a machine learning image inpainting task that instinctively removes watermarks from image indistinguishable from the ground truth image

Repository: https://github.com/zuruoke/watermark-removal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/watermark-removal
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: tensorflow, deep-learning, machine-learning, python, watermark-image
Last push: 2026-08-14T05:56:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 55, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1763, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": 89, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5139, forks 599 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:11.108455+00:00)

## What it is
A machine learning tool that removes watermarks from images using deep learning image inpainting, based on Contextual Attention and Gated Convolution research. It reconstructs watermarked regions so the result is indistinguishable from the original unwatermarked image.

## Use cases
- remove watermarks from images
- inpaint watermarked regions in photos
- restore images to their unwatermarked ground truth
- run deep learning image inpainting on pictures
- clean up stock photo watermarks

## When to choose
- you need automated, ML-based watermark removal rather than manual editing
- you want a ready-to-run Python or Docker tool for image inpainting
- you need results that closely match the original unwatermarked image

## When to avoid
- you need a commercially licensed tool (the project is CC BY-NC)
- you need a maintained production pipeline with active support
- you want a GUI-based photo editor rather than a command-line workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, machine-learning, deep-learning
- domain: image-processing, computer-vision, machine-learning
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: watermark-removal, image-inpainting, tensorflow, computer-vision, photo-restoration, docker

## Member repositories
- zuruoke/watermark-removal (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:11.108455+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 2026-08-29T18:02:00.876103+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zuruoke/watermark-removal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:11.108455+00:00, sha 172e22bf57f1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.