Video Background Removal

Video Background Removal

Removes or swaps the background of a video using the BiRefNet models, and runs online in the browser or on your own computer with Python.

Made by innova-ai on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: Video Background Removal is a Gradio app that innova-ai published as a Hugging Face Space. It removes or changes the background of a video, and it names the ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet and BiRefNet_lite models. The repository also holds a background video, an image and a two-second clip, and the Space runs on zero-a10g hardware.

Who it suits: People who want to take out or replace the backdrop of a video clip, and developers who want the app's files to read or run themselves.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Media | Video editors | Open the Space and remove or swap a clip's background | Putting a different scene behind a talking-head clip
Marketing | Content creators | Change the backdrop of a short video | Giving a product clip a plain background
Software development | Gradio developers | Download the files and read app.py | Studying how a video demo is wired up in Gradio

Skip it if you need a hosted service with an API, since this is an app you open or run yourself.

Where to use it: Video Background Removal runs in these places.

• A web browser: open the Space's page on Hugging Face
• Python on Windows, macOS or Linux: run a copy of the Space

Use case | Who | What they get back
Remove a background | Anyone with a video | The clip with its background taken out
Change a background | Anyone with a video | The clip with a new background in place
Read the code | Learners | The main file, a requirements list and the sample media

How to set it up: Online use needs only a browser. A local copy needs a few things first.

• A web browser for the online Space
• Python on Windows, macOS or Linux for a local copy
• The Python packages listed in requirements.txt

1. Install the Hugging Face hub library with pip.
2. Download the Space's files into a folder called video-background-removal.
3. Move into that folder.
4. Install Gradio at the version the Space uses.
5. Install the packages listed in requirements.txt.
6. Start the app with Python.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download innova-ai/video-background-removal --repo-type space --local-dir video-background-removal
cd video-background-removal
pip install gradio==5.26.0
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

How to use it: Online, open the Space's page, give it a video and choose whether to remove or change the background. On your own computer, start the app from the folder with the command below.

python app.py

Tool | What it does
python app.py | Starts the Gradio app from the main file
pip install -r requirements.txt | Installs the packages the app needs
hf download | Fetches the Space's files into a local folder

Example: You open the Space and give it a short video. The app returns the same video with its background removed or changed.

For newcomers and experts: If you are new, open the Space's page and try a short clip. Running it online needs no setup, so start there before you try a local copy.

If you know the field, the Space names two BiRefNet checkpoints, a full one and a lite one. A local copy pins Gradio 5.26.0. The Space itself uses zero-a10g hardware at Hugging Face, so a local run depends on your own machine.

Open the Space or run app.py
You give it a video
The BiRefNet model separates the background
You get the video back

Good to know: It is a single Gradio app, so what you can do is limited to what its page offers.

• Version: Gradio 5.26.0
• Models: the BiRefNet and BiRefNet_lite checkpoints from ZhengPeng7
• Size: 7 files in the repository
• License: MIT
• Cost to run: none named
• Data it reaches: the videos you give it, plus the models it names
• Not for: no forbidden uses are named

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 663
• Built with: gradio
• License: mit

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/innova-ai/video-background-removal
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/innova-ai/video-background-removal/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.