Meta releases AI model ‘SAM,’ can identify items within images

Category : Science and Tech Published on: April 11 2023

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Facebook parent Meta published an artificial intelligence model that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind.
Meta's research division said that it has published a Segment Anything Model (SAM) and the corresponding dataset to foster research into foundation models for computer vision.
The SAM model and dataset will be available for download under a non-commercial license. Users uploading their images to an accompanying prototype likewise must agree to use it only for research purposes.
While using SAM, a user can ask it to select a particular object by either clicking on it or writing a text prompt.