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Paper Review: Segment Anything

- 99% of masks are automatic, i.e. w/o labels;
- Main image encoder model is huge;
- To produce masks you need a prompt or a somewhat accurate bbox (partial bbox fails miserably);
- Trained on 128 / 256 GPUs;
- Most likely - useful a large scale data annotation tool;
- Not sure that it can be used in production as is, also license for the dataset is research only, the model is Apache 2.0

https://andlukyane.com//blog/paper-review-sam

Unless you have a very specific project (i.e. segment just one object type and you have some priors), this can serve as a decent pre-annotation tool.

This is nice, but probably it can offset 10-20% of CV annotation costs.