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SAM3 — Segment Anything Model 3

SAM3 (Meta’s Segment Anything Model 3) provides universal segmentation for images and videos. It supports point prompts, bounding box prompts, text prompts, and video tracking.

Input formats

.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .tiff, .bmp, .webp, .mp4, .avi, .mov

Modes

Visual prompt segmentation (PVS)

Click on your image to provide prompts:
  • Point prompts — click foreground points (label=1) or background points (label=0) to guide segmentation
  • Box prompts — draw a bounding box around the object to segment
Best for: segmenting specific objects you can see and point to.

Text concept segmentation (PCS)

Describe what you want to segment in natural language:
  • “red neurons”
  • “cell nuclei”
  • “mitochondria”
Set a confidence threshold (0–1) to filter results by match quality. Best for: segmenting objects by semantic description without clicking.

Video tracking

Track objects across video frames:
  • Select an object in one frame using point or box prompts
  • Propagate the mask forward or backward through the video
  • Specify a start frame for tracking
Best for: following cells, animals, or structures through time-lapse or video data.

Z-stack propagation

For multi-plane images, propagate a segmentation mask across Z-slices automatically.

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Outputs

Compute requirements

Presets