Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 Power SYNAPS-I's Genesis Mission Imaging Pipeline

SYNAPS-I, a multi-lab Genesis Mission project led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, uses Meta's open-source SAM 3 and DINOv3 models to segment X-ray and micro-CT scientific imagery.

The fine-tuned pipeline, run on 300 A100 GPUs, reduced a grapevine xylem analysis from a month of expert annotation per time step to about 15 minutes.

The team can deploy the open models inside secure national lab infrastructure, where research data must remain.