Remove background from image

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Hello guys. I need to remove background from image using openCV and java.
What methods can you recomend me?

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what have you tried so far?

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I found this tutorial and try to make the same thing on java

import org.opencv.core.*;
import org.opencv.imgcodecs.Imgcodecs;
import org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc;

public class Main {
    static{ System.loadLibrary(Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME); }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Welcome to OpenCV " + Core.VERSION);

        Imgcodecs imageCodecs = new Imgcodecs();
        String file ="src/myCode/img.jpg";
        Mat image = imageCodecs.imread(file);
        System.out.println("Image Loaded ..........");

        Rect rectangle = new Rect(0, 0, image.width(), image.height());
        Mat result = Mat.zeros(image.height(),image.width(),CvType.CV_8U);
        Mat bgdModel = Mat.zeros(1,65,CvType.CV_64F);
        Mat fgdModel = Mat.zeros(1,65,CvType.CV_64F);
        Mat source = new Mat(1, 1, CvType.CV_8U, new Scalar(3));
        Imgproc.grabCut(image, result, rectangle, bgdModel, fgdModel, 8, Imgproc.GC_INIT_WITH_MASK);
        Core.compare(result, source, result, Core.CMP_EQ);
        Mat foreground = new Mat(image.size(), CvType.CV_8UC3, new Scalar(255, 255, 255));
        image.copyTo(foreground, result);
        //Imgcodecs.imwrite(fileNameWithCompletePath, foreground);


        //Writing the image
        String file2 = "src/myCode/img2.jpg";
        Imgcodecs.imwrite(file2, foreground);
        System.out.println("Image Saved ............");
        
    }
}

But right now I’m getting the exceptions

Exception in thread "main" CvException [org.opencv.core.CvException: cv::Exception: OpenCV(4.5.0) C:\build\master_winpack-bindings-win64-vc14-static\opencv\modules\imgproc\src\grabcut.cpp:386: error: (-215:Assertion failed) !bgdSamples.empty() && !fgdSamples.empty() in function 'initGMMs'
]
	at org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc.grabCut_0(Native Method)
	at org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc.grabCut(Imgproc.java:7074)
	at myCode.Main.main(Main.java:23)
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I fixed this problem by changing rectangle size to
Rect rectangle = new Rect(1, 1, image.width(), image.height());

The problem was in that rectangle shouldn’t cover the whole image

Now I have another question
How to make background transparent?