Depth Effect

NetEase Cloud Music Tech Team

Feb 8, 2023 · Mobile Development

Implementing iOS 16 Depth Effect Using Image Segmentation with CoreML and Vision

This guide shows how to recreate iOS 16’s lock‑screen Depth Effect by integrating Apple’s pre‑trained DeeplabV3 CoreML model with Vision, running a VNCoreMLRequest on a resized image in a background thread, converting the output to a binary mask, and overlaying it on the original photo to simulate foreground‑background depth, with code examples and GitHub source.