DINOv3 + SAM 3.1 Turns a Surgical Tray into a Local Visual Search Engine
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-10-03
Combining DINOv3 with SAM 3.1, the author turned a surgical instrument tray into a visual search engine: one instrument serves as the query, and the rest are ranked by visual similarity—entirely on-device, fully local. A striking demonstration of how specialized vision model combos keep improving.
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