diff --git a/utils/segment/general.py b/utils/segment/general.py
index f1655e488944..075dce192ddf 100644
--- a/utils/segment/general.py
+++ b/utils/segment/general.py
@@ -20,31 +20,32 @@ def non_max_suppression_masks(
         max_det=300,
         mask_dim=32,
 ):
-    """Runs Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) on inference results
+    """Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) on inference results to reject overlapping detections
 
     Returns:
          list of detections, on (n,6) tensor per image [xyxy, conf, cls]
     """
 
+    bs = prediction.shape[0]  # batch size
     nc = prediction.shape[2] - 5  # number of classes
     xc = prediction[..., 4] > conf_thres  # candidates
 
     # Checks
-    assert (0 <= conf_thres <= 1), f"Invalid Confidence threshold {conf_thres}, valid values are between 0.0 and 1.0"
-    assert (0 <= iou_thres <= 1), f"Invalid IoU {iou_thres}, valid values are between 0.0 and 1.0"
+    assert 0 <= conf_thres <= 1, f'Invalid Confidence threshold {conf_thres}, valid values are between 0.0 and 1.0'
+    assert 0 <= iou_thres <= 1, f'Invalid IoU {iou_thres}, valid values are between 0.0 and 1.0'
 
     # Settings
     # min_wh = 2  # (pixels) minimum box width and height
     max_wh = 7680  # (pixels) maximum box width and height
     max_nms = 30000  # maximum number of boxes into torchvision.ops.nms()
-    time_limit = 10.0  # seconds to quit after
+    time_limit = 0.6 + 0.06 * bs  # seconds to quit after
     redundant = True  # require redundant detections
     multi_label &= nc > 1  # multiple labels per box (adds 0.5ms/img)
     merge = False  # use merge-NMS
     nm = 5 + mask_dim
 
     t = time.time()
-    output = [torch.zeros((0, 6 + mask_dim), device=prediction.device)] * prediction.shape[0]
+    output = [torch.zeros((0, 6 + mask_dim), device=prediction.device)] * bs
     for xi, x in enumerate(prediction):  # image index, image inference
         # Apply constraints
         # x[((x[..., 2:4] < min_wh) | (x[..., 2:4] > max_wh)).any(1), 4] = 0  # width-height
@@ -92,8 +93,6 @@ def non_max_suppression_masks(
             continue
         elif n > max_nms:  # excess boxes
             x = x[x[:, 4].argsort(descending=True)[:max_nms]]  # sort by confidence
-        else:
-            x = x[x[:, 4].argsort(descending=True)]  # sort by confidence
 
         # Batched NMS
         c = x[:, 5:6] * (0 if agnostic else max_wh)  # classes