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		teruakohatu on April 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any obj... It would be nice if it could run entirely in the browser but the image embedding model is absolutely huge.

blandcoffee on April 6, 2023 [–]

Can you expand further on what you mean by this?

teruakohatu on April 6, 2023 | [–]

The SAM model is small (4m params) , but requires image embedding to be computed from what is I think a 600m params model. Right now the demo uploads the image to get the embeddings, then runs the actual segmentation locally.

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