diff --git a/orchestrators/imajin-pipeline/pyproject.toml b/orchestrators/imajin-pipeline/pyproject.toml
index d800fb6b..6d1856d4 100644
--- a/orchestrators/imajin-pipeline/pyproject.toml
+++ b/orchestrators/imajin-pipeline/pyproject.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ pulid = [
     "onnxruntime-gpu>=1.15.0", # InsightFace GPU backend
     "model-boss-loaders[pulid]>=1.0.0",  # PuLID loader
 ]
-all = ["imajin-pipeline[quality,moderation,anatomy_fix,watermark_removal,controlnet,flux,pulid]"]
+background_removal = [
+    "rembg>=2.0.50",           # U2Net-based background removal
+]
+all = ["imajin-pipeline[quality,moderation,anatomy_fix,watermark_removal,controlnet,flux,pulid,background_removal]"]
 dev = ["pytest>=7.0", "pytest-asyncio>=0.21", "mypy>=1.0"]
 
 [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]