Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

Post by bioemerl » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 4:30 PM UTC

wbobeirne wrote: post #5

bioemerl wrote: post #2

Unrelated, but can we please get web browsers to enable users to totally turn off all auto play video and video encoding? I hate websites like this where you deal with a minefield of video areas that might start playing audio at the smallest tap and drain your bandwidth for content you have zero desire to watch.

Many browsers have settings built in for this, and those that don't natively definitely have browser extensions for doing this.

Post by kouteiheika » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 4:51 PM UTC

lacker wrote: post #42

sillysaurusx wrote: post #9

Meta does stellar work in AI. I’m quite certain the recent DMCAs were a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. This model is open source in every sense of the word, and they’ve now released two impactful models in the span of a month. This tweet chain is a pretty great overview: https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1643647849824161792?s=61...

I agree, Meta's work in AI has been really impressive, and it's encouraging how they are open-sourcing so much. It's funny, back in the 90s I disliked Microsoft and thought they were inherently culturally opposed to open source. But big corporations really just follow their business incentives when it comes to open source. It's not like Meta "loves to be open". But they would hate a world where all the powerful AI de…

Post by neuronexmachina » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 5:04 PM UTC

polygamous_bat wrote: post #35

kamranjon wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are the weights open source?

Right here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything#model-c...

Post by gardaani » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 5:13 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #29

Any idea how/when this will make it into Photoshop? According to the article, the weights haven't been open sourced, so nobody can take this and build their own Photoshop plugin. But I'm incredibly curious if they'll license this to Adobe, or if Adobe's already got its own team building the same thing that'll be just as good, or what. It's not super-clear to me why Meta as opposed to Adobe has come out with this firs…

Post by rahimnathwani » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 5:34 PM UTC

bick_nyers wrote: post #44

graderjs wrote: post #24

I relly hope Meta (FB research) releases this wonderful noise reduction library: https://github.com/facebookresearch/denoiser I tested MANY while building various audio tech and this was by far the best (beats the shit out of all the python Pandas Hugging Face lists etc). Incredibly ability to cut noise (tho, it must be noted that perceptual improvements for humans do not usually increase machine transcription as AI…

Somewhat tangential question, have you looked for/found any audio models/tools that can be used for separating out individual voices to separate audio tracks automatically? Perhaps this is already possible with existing tools that I am uninitiated in.