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Opinion
Segment Anything models underperform compared to other models on screenshots
“And one place where, interestingly, segment anything may be less performant than other models is handling screenshots.”
Joseph Nelson Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 32:51 Segment Anything 2: Memory + Vision = Object Permanence — with Nikhila Ravi and Joseph Nelson
Insight
Production computer vision still requires user prompting to isolate targets
“But even if you had, like, a perfect SAM, like an omniscient SAM that could see every segment in every domain with all pixels perfectly outlined, in production, you still need some way to almost, like, signal to the model what you care about.”
Joseph Nelson Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 11:53 Segment Anything 2: Memory + Vision = Object Permanence — with Nikhila Ravi and Joseph Nelson
Disclosure
Nelson: Roboflow users labeled 49M images using SAM in one year
“I recently pulled statistics from the usage of Sam in RoboFlow over the course of the last year, and users have labeled about forty nine million images using segment anything on the hosted side of the RoboFlow platform, and that's like five million in the last…”
Joseph Nelson Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 6:48 Segment Anything 2: Memory + Vision = Object Permanence — with Nikhila Ravi and Joseph Nelson
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