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Meta · Multimodal and robotics · Apr 5, 2023 · 16,793 citations · 6 upvotes

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A promptable model and a dataset of over a billion masks that cut out any object in any image.

By Alexander Kirillov, Eric Mintun, Nikhila Ravi and 9 more · arXiv 2304.02643 · PDF

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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
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16,793, 2,203 influential · Semantic Scholar
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6 · Hugging Face
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