eBay Introduced New Feature to Remove Image Backgrounds

Sellers in e-commerce platform, eBay, list their products that incorporate images with unnecessary backgrounds. To assistance these sellers meliorate the quality of their listings, eBay is rolling out a new feature that will use computer vision to automatically remove the background from the images to bring the primary items in the spotlight.

The "Epitome Clean-Up" feature is powered by figurer vision engineering that can remove the backgrounds of images replacing them with a clean white background. This characteristic is introduced past eBay as most of its sellers do not have a professional photograph studio to shoot decent product images with overnice backgrounds nor are they Photoshop experts who can remove objects from the background using the software.

At present, this feature will be integrated into the eBay app for smartphones. So, when the sellers upload the images of their products, the tool will automatically separate the main item from the background of the image and remove the background. This will make the paradigm professional-looking as the item will stand-out with a white groundwork. The tool will as well provide manual controls to remove any part of the background that it missed in the process.

Co-ordinate to the east-commerce platform, listings with a clean white background create a amend start impression and have the potential to sell much faster than products in listings with unprofessional images. The company says that the tool can also help with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) as listings with clean images go more than clicks.

The feature is currently beingness rolled out for the iOS and Android app of the e-commerce platform for users in Australia, Frg, the The states and the United kingdom. Users in the rest of the world volition receive this characteristic in the coming months.