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AI · May 28, 2017

ObjectCropBot – Interactively Crop Objects from Photos with AI

A site that segments out objects from photos with AI

ObjectCropBot – Interactively Crop Objects from Photos with AI launched on May 28, 2017 with 33 votes, #712 of 3,229 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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ObjectCropBot uses AI to automatically identify and crop objects from photos. Launched in 2017, it is designed for users who need to quickly extract subjects from images without manual selection. The tool leverages artificial intelligence to detect object boundaries and remove backgrounds, streamlining what would typically require manual editing or specialized software skills.

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An eclectic researcher and engineer endlessly interested in AI, art, side-projects, philosophy, and many more things. I had already had experience with DeepMask when starting on this, since my project for Stanford’s AI class was to modify DeepMask to see if it could be used to crop objects with a single click. My conclusion from that was that I was still better off using Facebook’s approach, but my experience with AWS for that project came in handy. Specifically, I reused my previous AWS DeepMask computing solution: paying for an AWS EC2 instance with a GPU, installing the relevant dependencies on it, and making it host a REST server. I had to modify the DeepMask code slightly, but for the…from andreykurenkov.com

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