📝 Blog

Hi, I’m Jiake Xie, a computer vision researcher at LibAI Lab. Here I share notes, deep-dives and how-to guides on the things I work on every day: image matting / cutout, diffusion-based generation, and the AI products our team incubates — like Cutout.Pro for image editing and heysproutly for plant identification.

If a post helps you, star my GitHub or drop me an email. Cross-links and discussion are always welcome.

• Plant Identification & Disease Detection with AI: A Practical Guide using heysproutly

  May 8, 2026 · #computer-vision#plant-identification#plant-disease#AI#tutorial

  “Why is my Monstera turning yellow?” is, statistically, one of the most-asked questions on the houseplant internet. The answer used to require a botanist friend. Today it requires a phone camera and ~3 seconds.

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• AI Image Cutout in 2026: A Researcher's Guide to Background Removal with Cutout.Pro

  May 8, 2026 · #image-matting#cutout#computer-vision#AIGC#tutorial

  “Cutout” is one of those problems that looks trivial on the surface — just remove the background, right? — but, as anyone who has fought with strands of hair or a glass cup can tell you, it is one of the hardest pixel-level tasks in computer vision.

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