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Open sourceactive2025

GhostFrame

Windows users get background blur and replacement from their graphics vendor. On Linux nobody was going to ship it, because the market does not justify the driver work. GhostFrame runs segmentation on the live stream and then presents itself to the system as an ordinary camera device. That last part is the whole design: every video app already knows how to open a camera, so nothing needs a plugin, an integration or the vendor's cooperation. The constraint was time. Segmentation has to finish inside a frame budget or you are shipping a stutter, and a call with a stutter is worse than a visible bedroom.

Started
2025
Stack
Python, Computer Vision, Linux, V4L2
Kind
Open source
Source
Public
Real-time
Background removal
Virtual cam
System-wide

How it evolved

  1. 2025
    Scoped

    Worked out what actually needed building before writing any code.

  2. 2025
    Built

    Built and shipped the core of it.

  3. 2025
    Live

    Shipped and still improving it.

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