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title: Browser Remove Background
emoji: 🖼️
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: indigo
sdk: static
app_file: index.html
pinned: false
license: apache-2.0
short_description: In-browser background removal (WebGPU/WASM) by is.tools
models: [chenjindu/isnet-web]
---
# Browser Remove Background
Removes image backgrounds **entirely in your browser** — the image is decoded,
segmented and composited on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, no server,
no API key, no account.
Built with [ONNX Runtime Web](https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/tutorials/web/) running
the ISNet segmentation model (Apache-2.0), with both WASM and WebGPU execution
providers so you can measure the difference yourself.
## Live demo
**[chenjindu.github.io/browser-remove-background](https://chenjindu.github.io/browser-remove-background/)**
A production version with a proper UI runs at
**[https://is.tools/remove-background](https://is.tools/remove-background)** — free, no
signup, no watermark, no size cap.
## Run it locally
npx serve .
Then open http://localhost:3000, pick a photo, and run inference with WASM and
with WebGPU to compare.
## Benchmark
Measured on a desktop with a discrete GPU, Chrome 113+, 1024×1024 input:
| Execution provider | 2nd inference |
|---|---|
| WebGPU | ~0.6 s |
| WASM | ~17 s |
The first run is always slower — model download, session creation and shader
compilation. Read the second number.
*WASM — runs everywhere, roughly 25× slower.*
*WebGPU — Chrome/Edge 113+, sub-second after warm-up.*
## Requirements
WebGPU needs Chrome or Edge 113+. Without it the page falls back to WASM, which
works in any modern browser but is roughly 25× slower on this model.
The model ships as three parts under `model/` and is reassembled in the browser,
which keeps every file under GitHub's size limit.
## Part of is.tools
This probe came out of building [**https://is.tools**](https://is.tools) — a set of
browser-side tools for PDF, image, text and encoding work, built under one rule:
the file never leaves your device.
Same approach throughout: image codecs are MozJPEG / libwebp / libavif / OxiPNG
compiled to WASM, PDF work uses pdf-lib and qpdf, OCR uses tesseract.js, and
background removal uses the ISNet model in this repo. No accounts, no quotas, no
upload step, no watermark on the output.
Available in 8 languages.
## License
Apache-2.0. The ISNet model is Apache-2.0 as well.
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