Background Removal / Virtual Green-screen & Low-Light Enhance (2025)

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Supported Bit Versions
  1. 64-bit
Source Code URL
https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval
Minimum OBS Studio Version
28.0.0
Supported Platforms
  1. Windows
  2. Mac OS X
  3. Linux

This plugin makes it easy to replace the background in portrait images and video to create a virtual green screen, as well as correct lighting in low-light conditions, just like Zoom or Google Meet. It uses a neural network to predict the mask of the portrait and remove the background pixels. It doesn't require* a GPU and works in all OSs!
Built-in background blur, transparent background, easily composable with other OBS plugins to replace the background with an image, browser or video. (* GPU Acceleration supported!)

Download for all OSs
FlatPak: $ flatpak install com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.BackgroundRemoval

Tutorial
Background Removal / Virtual Green-screen & Low-Light Enhance (1)

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Author
royshilkrot
Downloads
1,041,933
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1,915,084
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Rating
3.54 star(s)39 ratings

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Latest updates

  1. We've fixed the potential lags and discrepancy between image and mask, and upgraded the...

  2. v1.1.12 - RMBG remove BG from ANY thing! Improvements and bugfixes

    New! RMBG model from Bria.AI https://huggingface.co/briaai/RMBG-1.4 - remove background from any...

  3. v1.1.9 - Bump dependency versions, linux ❤️

    In this release we bumped versions of OpenCV and ONNXRuntime, and trying to get rid of the...

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  • Kryczeck75
  • 1.00 star(s)
  • Apr 29, 2025
  • Version: v1.1.13

Ich habe es mehrfach heruntergeladen (WIN 11 / OBS 31.0.3) aber der Filter wird mir nicht angezeigt und ich kann ihn nicht verwenden

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  • Ortiz Andres
  • 5.00 star(s)
  • Apr 6, 2025
  • Version: v1.1.13

cuts my ears a bit and some other parts, but in overall it seems good, thanks

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  • Rubinho
  • 2.00 star(s)
  • Feb 16, 2025
  • Version: v1.1.13

I hope i can use this plugin someday, as it crashes upon OBS start,
I am going to try to find a solution, it may be related to outdated sw.

As of shown funcionality, i cant be more hyped to get started using it

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  • MotorOle
  • 5.00 star(s)
  • Jan 21, 2025
  • Version: v1.1.13

Downloaded and installed the filter with no problems. Super smooth. But the filter cuts off too much of my face. Are there any good tips on how to improve the performance?

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  • Benedictus84
  • 4.00 star(s)
  • Nov 27, 2024
  • Version: v1.1.13

I have it isntalled but id doesnt remove my backround. i have windows 11. I can select the filter abut it doest do anything

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  • pohai85
  • 5.00 star(s)
  • Sep 24, 2024
  • Version: v1.1.13

My first install! smooth and easy to install. The plugin is easy to use and looks good!

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  • joaoem
  • 3.00 star(s)
  • Jul 16, 2024
  • Version: v1.1.13

Could I have a background removal version to MacOs 10.15 Catalina? This version required macos 11.0 that I only known this trying to compile it.

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  • Markj98
  • 5.00 star(s)
  • Jun 15, 2024
  • Version: v1.1.13

Worked for me! Thanks for the helpful & free tool for OBS

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  • DutchDad
  • 5.00 star(s)
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • Version: v1.1.8

I use this everyday for my webcam video in my Microsoft Teams meetings. I combine this with a looping video of a nature scene behind me to definitively have the best background than my coworkers haha

Utilizing the GPU on my Windows PC means that this does not strain my PC while also using the resource hog, that is, Microsoft Teams.

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  • Lesley8000
  • 1.00 star(s)
  • Oct 5, 2023
  • Version: v1.1.4

Doesn't even work... and it goes into the effects filters when it should go into audio/video filters, and where is the colour key for it

royshilkrot

Hi! I'm sorry the experience you got isn't perfect. We can help! For your usage issues please open an issue so we can track and discuss a solution https://github.com/obs-ai/obs-backgroundremoval/issues

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