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TLDR

An AI research model that finds and outlines objects in images using text descriptions, clicks, scribbles, or reference images as input prompts, with multi-round interaction support.

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    What it does
      Image segmentation
      Multi-modal prompts
      Multi-round sessions
    Input types
      Text description
      Point click
      Scribble
      Reference image
    Setup
      Linux with GPU
      Hugging Face weights
      Local demo
    Related work
      X-Decoder base
      Semantic-SAM
      Grounding SAM
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USE CASE 1

Segment objects in an image by typing a plain-text description of what you want to select.

USE CASE 2

Combine a scribble and a text label to precisely identify and mask a region in a photo.

USE CASE 3

Run interactive multi-round segmentation where the model remembers earlier selections in a session.

USE CASE 4

Try the model using pre-trained weights from Hugging Face without training it yourself.

Tech stack

PythonPyTorch

Getting it running

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires a Linux machine with a GPU and pre-trained model weights downloaded from Hugging Face.

In plain English

SEEM, short for Segment Everything Everywhere with Multi-modal prompts, is an AI research project that can identify and outline objects in images based on a wide variety of input types. Most image segmentation tools ask you to draw a box around an object or click on it. SEEM goes further: you can describe what you want in plain text, click a point, draw a rough scribble, or even provide a picture of a reference object, and the model will find and mask the matching region. This research was published at NeurIPS 2023. The core idea is a single model that handles many different ways of specifying what to segment, instead of training a separate model for each input type. You can combine these prompts however you want. For example, you could describe an object in text and also draw a scribble to narrow down where it is. The model also supports multi-round interaction, meaning it can remember context from earlier steps in a session rather than treating every request from scratch. Setting up and running a demo requires a Linux environment with a GPU, Python, and a few dependencies the repository documents. The README includes a one-line command that clones the repository and launches a local demo. Pre-trained model weights are available for download from Hugging Face, so you do not have to train the model yourself to try it out. The project is built on top of an earlier model called X-Decoder, which is a general-purpose visual decoder the same research group released. SEEM adds interactive segmentation features on top of that foundation. The README also links to related projects including a tool called Semantic-SAM, which focuses on recognizing objects at different levels of detail, and Grounding SAM, which combines object detection with segmentation. The repository is primarily a research release. It contains demo code, configuration files, and links to model checkpoints, along with benchmark numbers comparing SEEM against other methods on standard image segmentation datasets. The training code for the underlying X-Decoder model was released separately, the README notes that SEEM training code was planned for a follow-up release.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
How do I install SEEM on a Linux GPU machine and run the local demo to segment images with text prompts?
Prompt 2
Give me a Python snippet to run SEEM inference and segment an object described in text from a local image file.
Prompt 3
How do I use SEEM to segment an image using a reference photo of an object rather than a text description?
Prompt 4
Where do I download the pre-trained SEEM model weights from Hugging Face and how do I load them?
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