SAM 2
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an open unified model for real-time, promptable object segmentation in images and videos; can be applied to unseen visual content without the need for custom adaptation; to enable accurate mask prediction in videos, a memory mechanism is introduced to store information on the object and previous interactions; the memory module also allows real-time processing of arbitrarily long videos; SAM2 significantly outperforms previous approaches on interactive video segmentation across 17 zero-shot video datasets while requiring three times fewer human-in-the-loop interactions.
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