diff --git a/examples/sam/main.cpp b/examples/sam/main.cpp
index 9139cea52d..982e65e6f9 100644
--- a/examples/sam/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/sam/main.cpp
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ struct sam_state {
     struct ggml_tensor * embd_img;
     struct ggml_tensor * embd_prompt_sparse;
     struct ggml_tensor * embd_prompt_dense;
+    struct ggml_tensor * pe_img_dense;
 
     struct ggml_context * ctx;
 
@@ -532,7 +533,7 @@ bool sam_model_load(const std::string & fname, sam_model & model) {
 
     // key + value memory
     {
-        const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
+        // const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
 
         // TODO
     }
@@ -630,6 +631,88 @@ bool sam_model_load(const std::string & fname, sam_model & model) {
     return true;
 }
 
+bool sam_fill_dense_pe(
+            const sam_model & model,
+                  sam_state & state,
+                        int   n_threads) {
+    const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
+    const auto & enc     = model.enc_prompt;
+
+    const int32_t n_img_embd = hparams.n_img_embd();
+    const float n_img_embd_inv = 1.0f / n_img_embd;
+
+    static size_t buf_size = 256u*1024*1024;
+    static void * buf = malloc(buf_size);
+
+    struct ggml_init_params params = {
+        /*.mem_size   =*/ buf_size,
+        /*.mem_buffer =*/ buf,
+        /*.no_alloc   =*/ false,
+    };
+
+    struct ggml_context * ctx0 = ggml_init(params);
+    struct ggml_cgraph gf = {};
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * xy_embed_stacked = ggml_new_tensor_3d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, 2, n_img_embd, n_img_embd);
+
+    {
+        float * data = (float *) ggml_get_data(xy_embed_stacked);
+        for (int i = 0; i < n_img_embd; ++i) {
+            const int row = 2*i*n_img_embd;
+            const float y_val = 2 * (i + 0.5f) * n_img_embd_inv - 1;
+            for (int j = 0; j < n_img_embd; ++j) {
+                const float x_val = 2 * (j + 0.5f) * n_img_embd_inv - 1;
+                data[row + 2*j + 0] = x_val;
+                data[row + 2*j + 1] = y_val;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_transpose(ctx0, enc.pe)), xy_embed_stacked);
+
+    cur = ggml_scale(ctx0, cur, ggml_new_f32(ctx0, 2.0f*M_PI));
+
+    // concat
+    // ref: https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything/blob/main/segment_anything/modeling/prompt_encoder.py#L192
+    {
+        struct ggml_tensor * t_sin = ggml_map_unary_f32(ctx0, cur, ggml_sam_sin);
+        struct ggml_tensor * t_cos = ggml_map_unary_f32(ctx0, cur, ggml_sam_cos);
+
+        cur = ggml_new_tensor_3d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, t_sin->ne[0] + t_cos->ne[0], cur->ne[1], cur->ne[2]);
+
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, t_sin, ggml_view_3d(ctx0, cur, t_sin->ne[0], t_sin->ne[1], t_sin->ne[2], cur->nb[1], cur->nb[2], 0)));
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, t_cos, ggml_view_3d(ctx0, cur, t_sin->ne[0], t_sin->ne[1], t_sin->ne[2], cur->nb[1], cur->nb[2], t_sin->nb[1])));
+    }
+
+    cur = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, cur, 2, 0, 1, 3));
+
+    // TODO: avoid copy
+    cur = ggml_cpy(ctx0, cur, state.pe_img_dense);
+
+    // run the computation
+    ggml_set_name(cur, "check");
+    ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, cur);
+    ggml_graph_compute_with_ctx(ctx0, &gf, n_threads);
+
+    // auto * t = ggml_get_tensor(ctx0, "check");
+    // auto print_t_f32 = [&](struct ggml_tensor * t) {
+    //     float * data = (float *)t->data;
+    //     printf("dims: %jd %jd %jd %jd f32\n", t->ne[0], t->ne[1], t->ne[2], t->ne[3]);
+    //     for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
+    //         printf("%f ", data[256*64*63 + 63*256 + i]);
+    //     }
+    //     printf("\n");
+    //     double sum = 0.0;
+    //     for (int i = 0; i < ggml_nelements(t); i++) {
+    //         sum += data[i];
+    //     }
+    //     printf("sum:  %f\n", sum);
+    // };
+    // print_t_f32(t);
+
+    return true;
+}
+
 bool sam_encode_image(
             const sam_model & model,
                   sam_state & state,
@@ -1254,6 +1337,14 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
         state.embd_prompt_dense  = ggml_new_tensor_3d(state.ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32,
                 model.hparams.n_img_embd(), model.hparams.n_img_embd(), model.hparams.n_enc_out_chans);
+
+        state.pe_img_dense = ggml_new_tensor_3d(state.ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32,
+                model.hparams.n_img_embd(), model.hparams.n_img_embd(), model.hparams.n_enc_out_chans);
+    }
+
+    if (!sam_fill_dense_pe(model, state, params.n_threads)) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: failed to get dense positional encoding\n", __func__);
+        return 1;
     }
 
     if (!sam_encode_image(model, state, img1, params.n_threads)) {