Release notes
## Live Background Removal Lite 2.5.0 – Smarter, More Flexible, and New Features!
Hello, streamers!
We’re excited to bring you **v2.5.0**, with both new capabilities and meaningful improvements for your OBS Studio experience.
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### ✨ New: Motion Intensity Thresholding filter (experimental)
- A brand new *Motion Intensity Thresholding* filter level has been added!
- This detects subject motion and only updates background removal when there’s significant movement.
- Reduces flicker from sudden lighting changes or background noise, and allows for more stable subject masking.
### 🛠️ Improvements & Tweaks
- **Advanced Settings**: New “Advanced Settings” group for fine-tuning, including motion detection sensitivity, number of threads, and advanced mask controls.
- **Filter Level Overhaul**: The filter level menu is now clearer, featuring the new Motion Intensity Thresholding and updated options for AI Segmentation and others.
- **More Flexible Mask Refinement**: Guided filtering and time-averaged mask refinement tuning now available via easy sliders.
- **Better Debugging**: The Debug Window now shows additional internal textures so you can look deeper into how background removal works under the hood.
- **More Stable Cross-Platform**: Improved handling for lots of edge cases, especially on less-standard system setups or trickier environments.
### 🌍 Language & Usability
- User-facing labels and documentation were improved in both English and Japanese for new and updated features.
### 🏗️ Under the Hood
- Filter internals have been reorganized for more reliability and future extensibility.
- Some old/less helpful options have been cleaned up.
- Added OpenCV to the third-party components attribution.
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Thank you to all users for your valuable feedback and suggestions! If you find issues or have feature ideas, please file an issue or reach out.
Enjoy background removal that’s even more robust and adaptable—
**Happy streaming! 🟢**