Segment Anything Model Explained
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
SAM, promptable segmentation and the largest segmentation dataset to date!
Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
Segmentation examples from the SAM model.
Segmentation is the ability to take an image and identify the objects, people, or anything of interest. It’s done by identifying which image pixels belong to which object, and it’s super useful for tons of applications where you need to know what’s going on, like a self-driving car on the road identifying other cars and pedestrians.
We also know that prompting is a new skill for communicating with AIs.
What about promptable segmentation?
Promptable segmentation is a new task that was just introduced with an amazing new… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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