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Segment Anything (SAM)

Alexander Kirillov, Eric Mintun, Nikhila Ravi, Hanzi Mao, Chloe Rolland, Laura Gustafson, Tete Xiao, Spencer Whitehead, Alexander C. Berg, Wan-Yen Lo, Piotr Dollár, Ross Girshick · IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2023)

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Principal Contribution

Built the SA-1B dataset (11M images, 1.1B masks) and promptable Vision Transformer architecture enabling zero-shot interactive object segmentation from points, boxes, or text.

Operational Relevance

Directly guides architectural decisions, alignment strategy, and serving infrastructure for task-image-segmentation.

Assumptions

  • Empirical distribution regularity holds and target domain adheres to pretraining linguistic/visual support

Limitations

  • Resource scaling, inference memory requirements, and alignment robustness vary with model size and hardware topology

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