An Analysis of Data Transformation Effects on Segment Anything 2

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Main Authors: Bromley, Clayton, Moore, Alexander, Saini, Amar, Poland, Doug, Carrano, Carmen
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Published: 2025
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author Bromley, Clayton
Moore, Alexander
Saini, Amar
Poland, Doug
Carrano, Carmen
author_facet Bromley, Clayton
Moore, Alexander
Saini, Amar
Poland, Doug
Carrano, Carmen
contents Video object segmentation (VOS) is a critical task in the development of video perception and understanding. The Segment-Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta AI, is the current state-of-the-art architecture for end-to-end VOS. SAM 2 performs very well on both clean video data and augmented data, and completely intelligent video perception requires an understanding of how this architecture is capable of achieving such quality results. To better understand how each step within the SAM 2 architecture permits high-quality video segmentation, a variety of complex video transformations are passed through the architecture, and the impact at each stage of the process is measured. It is observed that each progressive stage enables the filtering of complex transformation noise and the emphasis of the object of interest. Contributions include the creation of complex transformation video datasets, an analysis of how each stage of the SAM 2 architecture interprets these transformations, and visualizations of segmented objects through each stage. By better understanding how each model structure impacts overall video understanding, VOS development can work to improve real-world applicability and performance tracking, localizing, and segmenting objects despite complex cluttered scenes and obscurations.
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spellingShingle An Analysis of Data Transformation Effects on Segment Anything 2
Bromley, Clayton
Moore, Alexander
Saini, Amar
Poland, Doug
Carrano, Carmen
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
68T45
I.4.6; I.2.10
Video object segmentation (VOS) is a critical task in the development of video perception and understanding. The Segment-Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta AI, is the current state-of-the-art architecture for end-to-end VOS. SAM 2 performs very well on both clean video data and augmented data, and completely intelligent video perception requires an understanding of how this architecture is capable of achieving such quality results. To better understand how each step within the SAM 2 architecture permits high-quality video segmentation, a variety of complex video transformations are passed through the architecture, and the impact at each stage of the process is measured. It is observed that each progressive stage enables the filtering of complex transformation noise and the emphasis of the object of interest. Contributions include the creation of complex transformation video datasets, an analysis of how each stage of the SAM 2 architecture interprets these transformations, and visualizations of segmented objects through each stage. By better understanding how each model structure impacts overall video understanding, VOS development can work to improve real-world applicability and performance tracking, localizing, and segmenting objects despite complex cluttered scenes and obscurations.
title An Analysis of Data Transformation Effects on Segment Anything 2
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
68T45
I.4.6; I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00042