Phase 4: Vision Transformers · ~60 minutes · Python
SAM 3 & Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
Give a model a text prompt and an image and get masks for every matching object. SAM 3 made that a single forward pass.
Hiring signal: Understanding of sam 3 & open-vocabulary segmentation internals
What you will learn
- Distinguish SAM (visual prompts only), Grounded SAM / SAM 2 (detector + SAM), and SAM 3 (native text prompts via Promptable Concept Segmentation)
- Explain the SAM 3 architecture: shared backbone + image detector + memory-based video tracker + presence head + decoupled detector-tracker design
- Use Hugging Face `transformers` SAM 3 integration for text-prompted detection, segmentation, and video tracking
- Pick between SAM 3, Grounded SAM 2, YOLO-World, and SAM-MI based on latency, concept complexity, and deployment target
Introduction
Type: Use + Build Languages: Python Prerequisites: Phase 4 Lesson 07 (U-Net), Phase 4 Lesson 08 (Mask R-CNN), Phase 4 Lesson 18 (CLIP) Time: ~60 minutes
Learning Objectives
- Distinguish SAM (visual prompts only), Grounded SAM / SAM 2 (detector + SAM), and SAM 3 (native text prompts via Promptable Concept Segmentation)
- Explain the SAM 3 architecture: shared backbone + image detector + memory-based video tracker + presence head + decoupled detector-tracker design
- Use Hugging Face
transformers SAM 3 integration for text-prompted detection, segmentation, and video tracking - Pick between SAM 3, Grounded SAM 2, YOLO-World, and SAM-MI based on latency, concept complexity, and deployment target
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