Running LaMa Inpainting and Real-ESRGAN in the Browser: Tiles, Memory Walls, and the Optimizations We Threw Away
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We build ClearPix, a set of media cleanup tools that run entirely in the browser — no uploads, no server GPUs. That means when a user removes a watermark, a 198MB LaMa inpainting model runs inside their tab, and when they upscale an image, Real-ESRGAN runs next to it in the same JavaScript heap. Th…
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- 2026-10-09 02:50 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Running LaMa Inpainting and Real-ESRGAN in the Browser: Tiles, Memory Walls, and the Optimizations We Threw Away