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Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

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Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

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Are the weights open source?

The weights are not "source".

The actual source code is not important. The source code can be printed on a single A4 page, the valuable final product is the weights you get after running the code for fifty million dollars of compute time.

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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…

> I agree, Meta's work in AI has been really impressive, and it's encouraging how they are open-sourcing so much. My usual reaction to anything Facebook releases is "yawn, they released yet another model that is practically useless because it's released under a non-commercial license", but I'm pleasantly surprised that this one seems to be actually liberally licensed! Hopefully this continues into the future.

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Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

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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…

Photoshop already has the Object Selection tool: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/tool-techniques/obje... I tried Meta's photo segmentation tool and I didn't see anything magical in it.

I haven't tried Meta's yet but Photoshop's tool though decent struggles with complex scenes

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How does it compare to Adobe's recent AI audio enhancement?

Not sure. Anyone else wanna chime in on that? BTW - in my search just now in response to your question, I see Dolby also has an API: https://dolby.io/products/enhance/

Interesting that all of these seem to work extremely well but none are actually available to end users as an unrestricted product.

Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

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Very meta (pun intended) but is there a website that allows you to say "I want to find an AI engine / application that does X", where X might be any iteration of terms:

"magic wand tool that cuts an image from the background"

"like photoshop where you cut an object from the background"

"photo segmentation tool"

Google would be the de facto here, but its kind of worthless as its gamed by SEO.

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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.

That's called "speaker diarization" and there's quite a bit of work in the field. https://github.com/topics/speaker-diarization I have no idea what's good or the best, but there's a starting point!

I had speaker diarization and my wife and dog wouldn’t even come near me for weeks

Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

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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.

Izotope RX Pro, which is software for the cleaning and refinement of audio for music and audio post production includes 'Multiple Speaker Detection' which analyzes different voices in a recording and allows you to process them independently.

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html

I can't speak to it's effectiveness because I don't have any need for it, and also RX 10 Advanced is commercial software and pretty expensive for a casual user, but the feature seems to be on the horizon for other apps.

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I've been wanting to build an app that will transform a photo into a template for stained glass. Interactive, to choose the "granule" size, merge color groups into one single piece, change border thickness, etc. Something like this would really help there and make it almost a piece of cake.

Yeah it basically does the first part that with a few lines of code! I've been playing with it using it to segment images and just randomly shake each segment in a short gif. Just to kind of mess around with it until I've found a real use for it or more time to implement some of the more interesting use cases I've got. I'm super pumped this was released!

Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

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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…

I’m glad Microsoft is open sourcing a lot of things.

I have never, ever seen a convincing business case for their doing so, however.

Not your opinion. A compelling business case.

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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…

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