AI SegmentationStop digitizing by hand. Detect every object automatically.
Turn raster imagery into clean vector data in minutes, not days.
No manual tracing, no GPU.
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Install in under 10 seconds
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Launch QGIS on your computer
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Navigate to Plugins → 🧩 Manage and Install Plugins
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Search for "AI Segmentation" and click Install
Frequently Asked Questions
- AI Segmentation is a free QGIS plugin that lets you trace objects in your images using AI. Point at what you want to extract and get precise outlines instantly.
- AI Segmentation Pro is an upcoming professional version with fully automated extraction. Instead of clicking object by object, you describe what you want to extract and the AI does it across your entire dataset automatically.
- Yes. AI Segmentation comes with an unlimited free plan, open source, running locally on your machine.
- The interactive click-to-segment mode runs entirely on your machine: no internet connection is required and your imagery never leaves your computer. The automatic detection mode (the free cloud trial and AI Segmentation Pro) sends the image tiles you detect to our secure EU infrastructure for higher precision and full automation; those tiles and the resulting masks are stored for the lifetime of your account so you get detection history and support, and you can request deletion at any time.
- You do. Every polygon you extract is yours to keep, use commercially, and redistribute. Your imagery stays yours, and we never resell or reuse your imagery or your results.
- Anything visible in your images: buildings, roads, vegetation, vehicles, water bodies, agricultural parcels, and more. It works on satellite imagery, aerial photos, drone images, and any other image layer in QGIS.
- Yes, a free account: sign in with your email or a Google or Microsoft login, no credit card needed. It takes under a minute, then everything runs locally.
- It works with any RGB image in QGIS: local files (TIFF, JPG, PNG) and online map layers like Google Satellite or OpenStreetMap. Extra bands like NIR or hyperspectral are not used yet.
- Yes, there is no hard size limit. Automatic mode splits a large zone into tiles, detects each one, and stitches everything back into a single seamless polygon layer, merging objects that cross tile edges. A larger area simply uses more credits (about 1,500 km² per month on Pro).
- Anywhere you have imagery. It runs on whatever raster you load, your own aerial or satellite imagery or online basemaps like Google Satellite, so it is not limited to any country or provider. Detection quality depends on image resolution, not location.
- When you are done, click Export or press Enter. All your outlines are saved as a standard GIS file directly in QGIS, ready to edit, style, or export to any format.
- AI Segmentation runs interactively inside QGIS, where you draw a zone and detect. Power users can drive it programmatically through the QGIS AI Agent for scripted, repeatable runs. A dedicated cloud batch API is not available yet.
- Open QGIS, go to Plugins → Manage and Install Plugins, search for "AI Segmentation" and click Install. Or download directly from the QGIS Plugin Repository.
- QGIS 3.22 or later, on Windows, macOS, or Linux. No GPU required. On first launch the plugin installs its AI dependencies automatically (a few hundred MB, one time).
- No, it is a QGIS plugin. QGIS is free, so you can install it alongside ArcGIS and export your segmentation results as standard vector files (GeoPackage, Shapefile) to use anywhere.
- No programming or AI knowledge required. If you can click on a map in QGIS, you can use this plugin. It is designed for surveyors, urban planners, ecologists, researchers, and anyone who works with aerial or drone imagery.
- Corporate proxies that inspect secure connections used to block the dependency install. Since version 1.2.2 the plugin detects this and switches to a compatible connection automatically, so update to the latest version first. If it still fails, send us the error report from the plugin and we will help.
- Update the plugin: in QGIS, go to Plugins, then Manage and Install Plugins, then Upgrade. Most reported issues, including dependency install failures, are fixed within days. If it persists, the error dialog has a report button that sends us the details directly.