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SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos

Extends promptable segmentation from images to video using streaming memory and interactive data collection.

Nikhila Ravi et al.
2024-08-01 · Meta FAIR · Research paper
Source checked: 2026-10-25Institution base · Meta Fundamental AI Research 🇺🇸 United States
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Shows a transferable perception foundation; physical action still requires planning and control.

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@misc{ravi2024sam,
  title = {SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos},
  author = {Nikhila Ravi and Valentin Gabeur and Yuan-Ting Hu and Ronghang Hu and Chaitanya Ryali and Tengyu Ma and Haitham Khedr and Roman Rädle and Chloe Rolland and Laura Gustafson and Eric Mintun and Junting Pan and Kalyan Vasudev Alwala and Nicolas Carion and Chao-Yuan Wu and Ross Girshick and Piotr Dollár and Christoph Feichtenhofer},
  year = {2024},
  eprint = {2408.00714},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CV},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00714}
}

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