General information
Reference
Requirements
Installation on Linux
Installation instructions

CUDA toolkit version
Python

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Segment-anything-2 model
Required python packages
MIB configuration

How to use
JSON file for custom networks
Addition of SAM-1
Remove sam4mib environment
Optional instructions for SAM-2 without MIB

Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2022
NVidia CUDA toolkit
Additional steps in Python

Segment-anything model (SAM, SAM2) is developed by Meta AI Research, FAIR research team. It can be used to segment individual objects or the whole image using a single or few mouse clicks.
SAM2 marks the updated version of the model with faster and better segmentation results.

Details of the research is available here:
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/sam-2-segment-anything-in-images-and-videos/

Implementation of SAM in MIB is done via utilization of an external Python interpreter, please follow the following steps to configure local python environment to work in MIB.
Important!
even though SAM can work on CPU, GPU is highly recommended as it is x30-60 faster.

• Nikhila Ravi, Valentin Gabeur, Yuan-Ting Hu, Ronghang Hu, Chaitanya Ryali, Tengyu Ma, Haitham Khedr, Roman Rädle, Chloe Rolland, Laura Gustafson, Eric Mintun, Junting Pan, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Nicolas Carion, Chao-Yuan Wu, Ross Girshick, Piotr Dollar, Christoph Feichtenhofer
  SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
  arXiv:2408.00714, https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00714

see below for step-by-step installation instructions

• MATLAB R2022b or newer (tested on R2024a)
  list of Python versions compatible with various MATLAB releases
• Python 3.10 or newer (tested on 3.11, version 24.5.0)
• Python environment with torch>=2.3.1 and torchvision>=0.18.1
• CUDA-compatible GPU is highly recommended, CPU can also be used but it is significantly slower

Is not yet tested, but following the general logic of installing SAM-2 for Windows should also work in Linux.
instuctions for installation of the previous version SAM-1 are here:
https://mib.helsinki.fi/downloads_systemreq_sam_linux.html


Installation and usage:

• Youtube tutorial (SAM1 version):

• For MATLAB version of MIB
  
  • In MATLAB command prompt type:
    >> gpuDevice
  • Check the output of the command to find out CUDA Toolkit Version
    MATLAB: CUDA Toolkit version
• For stand alone version of MIB
  
  • Start MIB
  • Start DeepMIB (Menu->Tools->Deep Learning Segmentation)
  • Press the "?" button in the Network panel
    MIB: CUDA Toolkit version
  • Check the output of the command to find out CUDA Toolkit Version
    MIB: CUDA Toolkit version

• Install Miniconda
  (tested on python 3.11, version 24.5.0, Miniconda3-py311_24.5.0-0-Windows-x86_64.exe)
  Archive of miniconda releases: https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/
  
  Commands below assume that Miniconda was installed to
  D:\Python\Miniconda311\
  
  Adjust the path to the actual location on miniconda on your system
  If you have admin account, you can install Python for all users, otherwise it is possible to install Python only for the current user.
  
  
• With Admin rights
  Example of the installation directory: D:\Python\Miniconda311\
  
  Installation for all users
  
  Miniconda configuration
  
  
  Optional note!
  If installation was done for All Users, change permission of Miniconda's envs directory (e.g. d:\Python\Miniconda311\envs\) or the whole Miniconda311 directory to be accessible for all users.
  This makes things a bit more organized, otherwise the python environment will be created in C:\Users\[USERNAME]\.conda\envs\
  

  Set permissions to python directory

  

  Set permissions to python directory
  
  
  
• Without Admin rights
  Example of the installation directory: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\miniconda311\
  
  Installation for the current user
  
  Miniconda installation directory
  
  Miniconda configuration

• Download segment-anything from:
  - forked distibution tested with MIB
  or
  - facebookresearch github
  
  Download SAM
• Unzip "segment-anything-2-main.zip";
  for example to d:\Python\Examples\segment-anything-2\
  Full path to setup.py: d:\Python\Examples\segment-anything-2\setup.py

• Create a new environment for Python with SAM
  • Start "Anaconda Prompt"
    Start->Miniconda3->Anaconda prompt (Miniconda311)
    
    If you have a local-admin account use it to start "Anaconda Prompt" and add a new environment!
    Otherwise, the installed environment may not be accessible to other users
  • Create a new environment, specify location for the environment and the version of Python e.g.:
    >> conda create --prefix d:\Python\Miniconda311\envs\sam4mib python=3.11
  
  
• Activate the environment:
  >> activate sam4mib
  For installation of SAM-2 without MIB or MATLAB follow sections at the bottom of this page
  
  
• Install Pytorch and torchvision
  (torch>=2.3.1, torchvision>=0.18.1)
  the instructions here to install both PyTorch and TorchVision dependencies:
  https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally
  
  
  • Using the possible options configure the command to install the packages (use CUDA version that matches the one detected in the CUDA toolkit version section):
    Configure pytorch
  • In the command window type the generated command to install pytorch; the tested command:
    >> pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121
  CUDA for pytorch may be lower than the installed CUDA toolkit version
• Install additional packages:
  
  • Install hydra-core:
    >> pip3 install hydra-core
  • Install iopath:
    >> pip3 install iopath

• Start MIB
• Open MIB preferences:
  Menu->File->Preferences
• Define path of python.exe installed in the specified environment (sam4mib):
  External directories->Python installation path
  For example:
  - D:\Python\Miniconda311\envs\sam4mib\python.exe
  - C:\Users\[USERNAME]\.conda\envs\sam4mib\python.exe
  
• Define directory to store network architectures for DeepMIB;
  this location will be used to download checkpoints:
  MIB preferences
  
  
• Select "Segment-anything model" tool in the Segmentation panel:
  
• Check the "SAM2" checkbox to enable the SAM2 version and press the Settings button:
  
• Open SAM settings:
  
  SAM Settings
• Select the backbone
  speed performance is about the same, but the largest model (sam2_hiera_l) gives the best results:
  - sam2_hiera_t (0.15Gb)
  - sam2_hiera_s (0.18Gb)
  - sam2_hiera_b_plus (0.32Gb)
  - sam2_hiera_l (0.90Gb) - recommended for best predictions
  
  
• Define location where segment-anything package was unzipped:
  if you check Check to select path to segment-anything a directory selection dialog will be shown
  
• Set correct execution environment, please note that CPU is 30-60 times slower than CUDA
  

Documentation on segment-anything is available:

• youtube tutorial (SAM1 version):
• Documentation page is available in MIB Help:
  User guide->
...GUI Overview, Panels->
......Segmentation panel->
..........Segmentation tools->Segment-anything model

All trained SAM networks are automatically installed upon user's demand. Links to the these networks are specified in sam2_links.json file located in Resources subfolder in MIB installation directory.
This json file can be used to specify locations to custom networks and those networks will be automatically linked and become available under the backbone section of the SAM configuration window.

An example of a section within json file that specify location of "Hiera tiny model"; use this as a template if you need to add a custom trained network

{	
"info": "Hiera tiny model",
"name": "sam2_hiera_t (0.15Gb)",
"backbone": "sam2_hiera_t",
"checkpointFilename": "sam2_hiera_tiny.pt",
"onnxFilename": "",
"checkpointLink_url_1": "https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/segment_anything_2/072824/sam2_hiera_tiny.pt",
"checkpointLink_url_2": "http://mib.helsinki.fi/web-update/sam/sam2_hiera_tiny.pt",
"modelCfgLink_url_1": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything-2/main/sam2_configs/sam2_hiera_t.yaml",
"modelCfgLink_url_2": "http://mib.helsinki.fi/web-update/sam/sam2_hiera_t.yaml",
"onnxLink": "http://mib.helsinki.fi/web-update/sam/vit_h.zip"
}
			

Description of fields:

• info: information about the SAM trained network
• name: name how it will be shown in the SAM configuration
• backbone: backbone name
• checkpointFilename: filename of the network file
• onnxFilename: [only for SAM1], onnx filename that is used with SAM version 1, not used for SAM2
• checkpointLink_url_1: an URL link from where pytorch file will be downloaded
• checkpointLink_url_2: an alternative URL link, in case when the first one does not work
• modelCfgLink_url_1: [only for SAM2] an URL link to the config file, that is typically located under sam2_configs directrory of SAM2
• modelCfgLink_url_2: [only for SAM2] alternative link to the config file
• onnxLink: [only for SAM1] an URL to a generated onnx file

It is also possible to link this file from anywhere, in this case use segment-anything settings in MIB to provide a new location.

If needed SAM-1 can be added to SAM-2 installation; in this case these few steps should be done:

• Activate the environment (if it is not yet activated):
  >> activate sam4mib
• Install opencv, onnxruntime and onnx:
  >> pip3 install opencv-python onnxruntime onnx
• Install pycocotools:
  >> pip3 install pycocotools
  if there is an error see below
• Install "onnxruntime-gpu" to make prediction on GPU:
  >> pip3 install onnxruntime-gpu==1.19.2

If you do not need mib4sam environment, you can follow the following steps to uninstall it from your system.

• Start "Anaconda Prompt"
  Start->Miniconda3->Anaconda prompt (Miniconda311)
  
• List the environments installed on your system by running the command:
  >> conda env list
• Remove sam4mib environment:
  >> conda remove --name sam4mib --all

These steps are only needed if SAM-2 is planned to be used without MIB or MATLAB

start the procedure with installation of Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2022 Community Edition with C++ compiler

• Download Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2022 Community Edition:
  https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads
  
  Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
• Start installation of Microsoft Visual Studio
• Select Python and Desktop C++ in the Workloads
  
  Select Python and Desktop C++ in the Workloads
• Update the destination location to whereever you want to install it
  
  Select destination

CUDA toolkits should match the CUDA version for your PyTorch installation. This should typically be CUDA 12.1 if you follow the default installation command.

• Navigate to CUDA Toolkit Archive page and download the suitable package
  (e.g. CUDA Toolkit 12.1.0 (February 2023))
• Start the installation and select the suitable configuration of options:
  
  Select suitable CUDA configuration
• Define CUDA_HOME Windows environment variable:
  
  • In Windows start menu type: "Edit the system environment variables
    
    Edit the system environment variables"
  • Edit the system environment variables:
    
    Edit the system environment variables"
  • Add a new system environment variable:
    
    Add a new system environment variable"
  • Specify location where CUDA Toolkit was installed:
    
    Specify location where CUDA Toolkit was installed"

These step are used after "Activate the environment" step from the Required python packages section.

• Do system check
  • Check that the proper version of CUDA is installed and visible, type:
    >> nvcc --version
    
    
  • - Check that CUDA_HOME variable is available, type:
    >> echo %CUDA_HOME%
    
    
• Install setuptools:
  >> conda install conda-forge::setuptools
  
  
• Install Pytorch and torchvision, as described above
• Compile required packages:
  
  • Change directory to the location of segment-anything-2:
    >> cd D:\Python\Examples\segment-anything-2\
  • Start compiling CUDA:
    >> pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
    it should finish with successful installation of packages:
    
    CUDA compiled