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Meta recently unveiled a demo of its new artificial intelligence model capable of cutting out any object in an image with just a single click.
Called the Segment Anything Model (SAM), the AI is a promptable segmentation system that understands “zero-shot generalization” to unfamiliar images and objects.
This means it doesn’t need additional training to get a general idea of what objects are, allowing it to auto select and erase objects with your click or highlight prompt.
With SAM, image editing is as simple as clicking or drawing a box over an object to highlight it, then clicking to erase the object. Since the objects are separately identified, you can remove an object or several objects at once.
SAM is distinguished for its flexible and efficient segmentation capability. Similar AI models usually require individual prompts or guidance for each step in the object removal process.
The advanced capabilities of SAM were the product of its training on a data set that included over 1.1 billion segmentation masks gathered from around 11 million licensed as well as privacy preserving images.
Meta sees SAM’s capabilities to be ideal for use in professions or fields that require quick image editing. These could be areas like fashion, product, or commercial photography.
As of now, the AI program is only available through demo tryouts for research purposes.
