Segment Anything

Segment Anything

SAM is an advanced AI-powered segmentation system capable of zero-shot generalization to diverse objects and images through customizable prompts.

About Segment Anything

Segment Anything (SAM), developed by Meta AI, is a versatile promptable segmentation system that generalizes to new objects and images without additional training. It allows users to easily isolate any object in an image with a single click. SAM supports various input prompts to handle a wide array of segmentation tasks. Trained on millions of images and masks through a data engine, it offers robust performance for diverse applications.

How to Use

Users can interact with SAM by providing prompts such as points, bounding boxes, or automatic segmentation. It can also be integrated into AR/VR systems or object detection pipelines for text-based segmentation. Try the live demo available on the official website to experience its capabilities.

Features

Supports customizable outputs for seamless integration
Zero-shot promptable segmentation for diverse objects
Automatically segments entire images with minimal input
Integrates smoothly with other AI and vision systems
Interactive prompts using points and bounding boxes

Use Cases

Creative image editing and collaging
One-click object extraction from images
Tracking and analyzing object masks in videos
Lifting 2D masks into 3D models
Enhancing image editing workflows
Text-to-object segmentation for automation

Best For

AI research and developmentImage processing professionalsRobotics and automation engineersComputer vision specialistsAR/VR application developers

Pros

Effective zero-shot generalization to unseen objects
Optimized for web-browser deployment
Seamless integration with AI and vision tools
Flexible prompt-based interaction
Trained on the extensive SA-1B dataset

Cons

Text prompt capabilities are discussed but not publicly available
Requires a GPU for efficient processing of images
Outputs only object masks, no label annotations
Currently limited to still images and individual video frames

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about Segment Anything

What types of prompts does SAM support?
SAM supports prompts like points, bounding boxes, and masks. Text prompts are explored but not yet available for public use.
How is the SAM model structured?
It features a ViT-H image encoder that processes each image once to produce an embedding, a prompt encoder for inputs, and a lightweight transformer-based mask decoder to generate object masks.
What data was used to train SAM?
SAM was trained on the extensive SA-1B dataset, which includes millions of images and masks. You can view this dataset through our online viewer.
Does SAM generate mask labels?
No, SAM predicts only object masks and does not produce label annotations.
Can SAM process videos?
Currently, SAM supports only static images or individual frames extracted from videos.