Segment Anything

Meta AI has developed a remarkable AI image segmentation tool called Segment Anything. This tool utilizes a promptable segmentation system, enabling it to effortlessly "cut out" objects from images. With just a single click, this tool can segment any object in any image, including unfamiliar ones, achieving zero-shot generalization without any additional training. One of the fantastic features of this tool is its promptable design, which allows seamless integration with other systems like AR/VR headsets or object detectors. The output masks produced by this tool can be used as inputs for various AI systems, opening up a wide range of applications such as video tracking, image editing, 3D modeling, and creative tasks. These advanced capabilities are the result of extensive training on a massive dataset of millions of images and masks, accumulated through a model-in-the-loop "data engine." With over 1.1 billion segmentation masks in its training dataset, this model is impressively efficient, offering fast inference on both GPUs and CPUs. Currently focused on images and individual video frames, this tool is implemented in PyTorch, and its code is readily available on GitHub.