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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 30, 2026Published at 2:34 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut Scientific Image Annotation From a Month to 15 Minutes
Berkeley Lab's segmentation pipeline for X-ray and neutron experiments under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission runs on Segment Anything Model 3 and DINOv3.
The segmentation pipeline at the center of a multi-laboratory imaging project now runs on two open-weight Meta models. Segment Anything Model 3 and DINOv3 sit inside SYNAPS-I, a project led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Argo…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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