ToonOut (anime fine-tune of BiRefNet) — worth listing?

[kndlt]

Hi Peng — thanks for BiRefNet, it's been great.

There's a strong community fine-tune for anime/stylized content: ToonOut by Muratori & Seytre (paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06839, MIT weights: https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/toonout). It fixes the usual failure cases on toon content — hair wisps, line art, translucency.

We also put up a hosted endpoint for it on Replicate (unofficial, fully credited): https://replicate.com/sprited/birefnet-toonout

Might be worth a mention alongside the other community variants/deployments in the README. Happy to PR the line if you'd prefer.

[ZhengPeng7]

Thanks @kndlt! I'll add the endpoint at the end of the ToonOut news line.
But I also suggest that you ask whether the authors of ToonOut can add your link there, which could target people who need it more accurately.

[kndlt]

Thanks, yes, I reached out here: https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/toonout/discussions/2.

[kndlt]

Hi Peng, I have an update.

I packaged and pushed a complete version of BiRefNet model on Replicate:

👉 https://replicate.com/sprited/birefnet

It includes variants such as general, general-hr, portrait, matting and toonout. Let me know if there are any other variants I should include.

• 11 variants
• fp16/fp32 selector
• animated gif/webp support

It would be helpful if you can feature it on the this repo's README.md since having more traffic will keep the Replicate servers warm.

Instead of featuring https://replicate.com/sprited/birefnet-toonout, it would be better if we feature https://replicate.com/sprited.

[ZhengPeng7]

OK, thanks! I'll update the link : )