Okay, so yesterday I decided to mess around with SAM, Frank, and Vitaly. I’ve heard some buzz about these guys and wanted to see what they’re all about, firsthand. No fancy tutorials, just straight into the deep end.
Getting Started (and Stumbling Around)
First, I needed to get my environment set up. This involved, you know, the usual stuff. Downloading a bunch of files, figuring out where to put them, and hoping I didn’t mess anything up. I definitely spent a good chunk of time just making sure I had the right versions of everything. I hit a few snags with some dependencies, but hey, that’s part of the fun, right?
- Downloaded the base models.
- Figured out the Python environment. (This always takes longer than I think it will).
- Installed a bunch of packages with pip. I swear, half my life is spent waiting for pip to finish.
First Attempts (and Epic Fails)
My initial plan was, well, ambitious. I had this grand idea of combining all three models in some super cool way. I loaded up an image, fed it into SAM, then tried to pipe that into… well, it got messy. I won’t bore you with the error messages, but let’s just say Python wasn’t happy with me. I think I was mixing up data types or something. Honestly, I was just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what stuck.
After a few hours of that, I decided to scale back. A lot. I focused on just getting SAM to work on its own. I started with a simple image, a picture of my cat (because, of course). I played around with the different parameters, trying to get a feel for how it responded. It took a while, but I finally started to get some decent segmentations.
Small Victories
Once I had SAM working, I moved on to Frank and Vitaly. I tried some similar experiments, feeding them the same images and seeing how the results differed. It was pretty interesting to see how each model interpreted the same scene in its own way. I spent a lot of time just clicking around, tweaking settings, and observing the changes.
I use some action verbs:
- mess around with
- figuring out
- fed it into
- get a feel
- moved on to
- clicking around
Wrapping Up (for Now)
By the end of the day, I wouldn’t say I was an expert, but I definitely felt like I had a better grasp of things. I still have a ton to learn, but I managed to get some basic results, and that’s a win in my book. My grand plan of combining all three is still on hold, but I’m feeling a bit more confident about tackling it… eventually.
My next plan is to:
- Read more docs.
- try sam, frank, vitaly in different images.
- try to find why my initial plan failed.
It’s a messy process, but it’s my process. And hey, at least I got some cool pictures of my cat out of it.
