Run AI in the Browser: Client-Side Background Removal and Feature Extraction with ONNX Runtime Web
For years, heavy computational tasks like computer vision, semantic segmentation, and deep feature extraction were strictly locked behind powerful backend server clusters equipped with expensive GPU arrays. When a user uploaded an image for background removal or semantic profiling, the browser acted merely as a thin presentation layer. It captured pixels, compressed them into JPEGs, and shipped…
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