Segment Anything: The Ultimate Tool for Object Extraction from Images

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Segment Anything: The Ultimate Tool for Object Extraction from Images
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Facebook Research has released the Segment Anything Model (SAM) under the Apache 2.0 license, which uses machine learning to reliably figure out which pixels in an image belong to an object. SAM has been trained on a huge dataset of high-quality images and masks, making it very effective at what it does. Once an image is segmented, those masks can be used to interface with other systems like object detection and other computer vision applications.

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