Grounded SAM

Visual task model

Grounded SAM is a powerful visual task model that combines the strengths of different models to detect and segment anything using text inputs. It's designed to be flexible and robust for diverse visual tasks, achieving impressive performance in image segmentation, object detection, and image generation. With its unique architecture, Grounded SAM can handle a wide range of tasks, making it a valuable tool for researchers and developers. While it requires high-quality text inputs, its potential applications are vast, including image and video editing, robotics, and healthcare. The model's efficiency and capabilities make it a remarkable tool for anyone looking to explore its possibilities.

IDEA-Research apache-2.0 Updated 6 months ago

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Model Overview

Meet Grounded-Segment-Anything (Grounded SAM), a game-changing AI model developed by IDEA-Research. This model combines the strengths of ==Grounding DINO== and ==Segment Anything== to detect and segment anything using text inputs. But what does that mean, exactly?

Capabilities

Grounded SAM is a powerful tool that can detect and segment anything using text inputs. But what can it do exactly?

  • Image Segmentation: It can identify and separate objects within an image.
  • Object Detection: The model can detect specific objects within an image.
  • Image Generation: Grounded SAM can even generate new images based on text inputs.

Performance

Grounded SAM has achieved impressive results, including:

  • 49.6 mean AP in the Segmentation in the Wild competition zero-shot track
  • Strong performance in various tasks, including image segmentation, object detection, and image generation
Examples
Segment the cat in the image. Segmentation mask of the cat: [[0.1, 0.2], [0.3, 0.4], [0.5, 0.6]]
Detect objects in the image of a busy street. Detected objects: car (confidence: 0.8), pedestrian (confidence: 0.7), bike (confidence: 0.9)
Generate an image of a futuristic cityscape based on the description. Image generated: 1024x768 pixels, RGB, JPEG format

Limitations

While Grounded SAM is powerful, it’s not perfect. Some limitations include:

  • Requiring high-quality text inputs, which can be time-consuming to generate
  • Struggling with complex or ambiguous text inputs

Potential Applications

The possibilities are vast! Grounded SAM could be used in:

  • Image and video editing
  • Robotics
  • Healthcare
  • And many more!

What’s Next?

The IDEA-Research team is actively working on improving the model and expanding its capabilities. You can check out their technical report on arXiv, titled Grounded SAM: Assembling Open-World Models for Diverse Visual Tasks, for more details. They’ve also released several demos and tutorials, including the Grounded-SAM Playground, where you can try out the model for yourself.

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