SAM Era: Can It Segment Any Industrial Surface Defects?

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a cutting-edge model that has shown impressive performance in general object segmentation.The birth of the segment anything is a groundbreaking step towards creating a universal intelligent model.Due to its superior performance in general object segmentation, it quickly gained attention and interest.This makes SAM particularly attractive in industrial surface defect segmentation, especially for complex industrial scenes with limited training data.However, its segmentation ability for specific industrial scenes remains unknown.Therefore, in this work, we select three representative and complex industrial surface defect detection scenarios, namely strip steel surface defects, tile surface defects, and rail surface defects, to evaluate the segmentation performance of SAM.Our results show that although SAM has great potential in general object segmentation, it cannot achieve satisfactory performance in complex industrial scenes.Our test results are available at: https:// github.