segment-anything VS txtai

- segment anything: https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything

In computer vision, this is known as zero-shot learning, or zero-shot prediction, because the goal is to generate predictions without explicitly being given any example predictions to learn from. With the advent of high quality multimodal models like CLIP and foundation models like Segment Anything, it is now possible to generate remarkably good zero-shot predictions for a variety of computer vision tasks, including:

Render a new living room using a controlnet model of your choice to keep the basic structure. Load the original living room image and look for the furniture you want to change with a Segment Anything Model to create a mask. Use that mask on the new living room to inpaint new furniture.

Hello,So I am trying to run some programs, python scripts from this page: https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything, and found myself spending hours without succeeding in even understanding what's is written on that page. And I think this is ultimately related to programming.

Some of the foundation/base models include: * GroundedSAM (Segment Anything Model) * DETIC * GroundingDINO

Webinar from last week on how to fine-tune VFMs, specifically Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM).

What you'll need to follow along the fine-tuning walkthrough:

Images, ground-truth masks, and optionally, prompts from the Stamp Verification (StaVer) Dataset on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rtatman/stamp-verification-s...)

Download the model weights for SAM the official GitHub repo (https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything)

Good understanding of the model architecture Segment Anything paper (https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/segment-anything/)

GPU infra the NVIDIA A100 should do for this fine-tuning.

Data curation and model evaluation tool Encord Active (https://github.com/encord-team/encord-active)

Colab walkthrough for fine-tuning: https://colab.research.google.com/github/encord-team/encord-...

I'd love to get your thoughts and feedback. Thank you.

I now want users to be able to use the segment-anything model (https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything) in my app. It's in pytorch if that matters. How it should work is that

Yeah, they are great and some of the reason (up the causal chain) for some of the work I've done! Seems really fun! <3 :))))

Facebook's Segment Anything Model I think has a lot of potentially really fun usecases. Plaintext description -> Network segmentation (https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything/blob/ma...) Not sure if that's what you're looking for or not, but I love that impressing your kids is where your heart is. That kind of parenting makes me very, very, very, happy. :') <3

There are some snippets of Python code on the segment-anything github readme that show how to do this. Once you have it installed you can import functions from the segment-anything module, load a segmentation model, and generate masks for input images that match the prompt of your choice. You don't need Stable Diffusion for this, but you could load it through diffusers to do things like inpaint your images using the masks.

I tend to agree with this sentiment. Many junior devs and/or those in college want to contribute. Then they feel entitled to merge a PR that they worked hard on often without guidance. I'm all for working with people but projects have standards and not all ideas make sense. In many cases, especially with commercial open source, the project is the base of a companies identity. So it's not just for drive-by ideas to pad a resume or finish a school project.

For those who do want to do this, I'd recommend writing an issue and/or reaching out to the developers to engage in a dialogue. This takes work but it will increase the likelihood of a PR being merged.

Disclaimer: I'm the primary developer of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai), an open-source vector database + RAG framework

txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

Bootstrapping only works if you have the runway to do it and you don't feel the need to grow fast.

With NeuML (https://neuml.com), I've went the bootstrapping route. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. It's a "live within your means" strategy.

VC funding can have a snowball effect where you need more and more. Then you're in the loop of needing funding rounds to survive. The hope is someday you're acquired or start turning a profit.

I would say both have their pros and cons. Not all ideas have the luxury of time.

I agree that in many cases people are puffing their feathers to try to be something they're not (at least not yet). Some believe in the fake it until you make it mentality.

With NeuML (https://neuml.com), the website is a simple HTML page. On social media, I'm honest about what NeuML is, that I'm in my 40s with a family and not striving to be the next Steve Jobs. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. For me, authenticity and being genuine is most important. I would say that being genuine has been way more of an asset than liability.

I'll add txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) to the list.

There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Just need to focus on the right projects that are innovating and not the ones (re)working on problems solved in 2020/2021.

txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

Nice project! I've long used Tika for document parsing given it's maturity and wide number of formats supported. The XHTML output helps with chunking documents for RAG.

Here's a couple examples:

- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai

- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/extract-text-from-documents

Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).