LAVIS VS clip-retrieval

For multimodal, there's China (*many), then Salesforce.

Been trying for all day to get a working inference for this example: https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS/tree/main/projects/instructblip

There's also been big breakthroughs in computer vision. Not that long ago it was hard to recognize if a photo contained a bird; that's solved now by models like CLIP, Yolo, or Segment Anything. Now research has moved on to generating 3D scenes from images or interactively answering questions about images.

The new hotness is multimodal vision-language models like InstructBLIP that can interactively answer questions about images. Check out the examples in the github repo, I would not have thought this was possible a few years ago.

Salesforce’s BLIP family has a new member– InstructBLIP, a vision-language instruction-tuning framework using BLIP-2 models. It has achieved state-of-the-art zero-shot generalization performance on a wide range of vision-language tasks, substantially outperforming BLIP-2 and Flamingo. (Source)

Github

Most of my workflows are self-made. For captioning I used Blip-2 in a custom script I made that automates the process by going into directories and their sub-directories and creates a .txt file beside each image. This way I can keep my images organized in their proper directories, without having to put dump them all in a single place.

The tool clip-retreival lets you filter those 400 million images to whatever subsets you're interested in --- for example, 10,000 images of (mostly) handwriting.

Hehe, well you know, PR welcome, the front end is 500 lines https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval/blob/main/front/sr...

Other people have done a few alternate front ends already

This one is meant to be functional, but could sure be made prettier

This might work: https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval .

HaveIBeenTrained uses clip retrieval to search the Laion-5B and Laion-400M image datasets. These are currently the largest public text-to-image datsets, and they are used to train models like Stable Diffusion, Imagen, among many others.

Done https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval/commit/53e3383f58b...

Using clip for searching is better than direct text indexing for a variety of reasons but here for example because it matches better what stable diffusion sees

Based on OpenAI's CLIP and the clip-retrieval library (https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval), I've built an end-to-end demo for a semantic and similarity image search engine. It's incredibly powerful for finding similar images amongst large image datasets, or just submitting text/natural language queries and finding the most relevant images in your dataset. Really useful tool for introspection into large datasets before annotation or ML work begins. This could potentially be used to filter or downsize your datasets by several orders of magnitude and make annotation and ML work easier and less costly.

Checkout the demo here:

http://ec2-52-39-251-116.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/

And you can checkout our website or email me for updates and email list, etc.:

https://machineperception.co

Assuming you have an NVIDIA GPU, you can build a semantic search engine by indexing CLIP embeds (image or text).

https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval