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---
pipeline_tag: image-to-text
tags:
- image-captioning
languages:
- en
license: bsd-3-clause
---
# BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
Model card for image captioning pretrained on COCO dataset - base architecture (with ViT large backbone).
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| <b> Pull figure from BLIP official repo | Image source: https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP </b>|
## TL;DR
Authors from the [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086) write in the abstract:
*Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance for many vision-language tasks. However, most existing pre-trained models only excel in either understanding-based tasks or generation-based tasks. Furthermore, performance improvement has been largely achieved by scaling up the dataset with noisy image-text pairs collected from the web, which is a suboptimal source of supervision. In this paper, we propose BLIP, a new VLP framework which transfers flexibly to both vision-language understanding and generation tasks. BLIP effectively utilizes the noisy web data by bootstrapping the captions, where a captioner generates synthetic captions and a filter removes the noisy ones. We achieve state-of-the-art results on a wide range of vision-language tasks, such as image-text retrieval (+2.7% in average recall@1), image captioning (+2.8% in CIDEr), and VQA (+1.6% in VQA score). BLIP also demonstrates strong generalization ability when directly transferred to videolanguage tasks in a zero-shot manner. Code, models, and datasets are released.*
## Usage
You can use this model for conditional and un-conditional image captioning
### Using the Pytorch model
#### Running the model on CPU
<details>
<summary> Click to expand </summary>
```python
import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import BlipProcessor, BlipForConditionalGeneration
processor = BlipProcessor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large")
model = BlipForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large")
img_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/demo.jpg'
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(img_url, stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
# conditional image captioning
text = "a photography of"
inputs = processor(raw_image, text, return_tensors="pt")
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
# unconditional image captioning
inputs = processor(raw_image, return_tensors="pt")
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
</details>
#### Running the model on GPU
##### In full precision
<details>
<summary> Click to expand </summary>
```python
import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import BlipProcessor, BlipForConditionalGeneration
processor = BlipProcessor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large")
model = BlipForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large").to("cuda")
img_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/demo.jpg'
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(img_url, stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
# conditional image captioning
text = "a photography of"
inputs = processor(raw_image, text, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
# unconditional image captioning
inputs = processor(raw_image, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
</details>
##### In half precision (`float16`)
<details>
<summary> Click to expand </summary>
```python
import torch
import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import BlipProcessor, BlipForConditionalGeneration
processor = BlipProcessor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large")
model = BlipForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large", torch_dtype=torch.float16).to("cuda")
img_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/demo.jpg'
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(img_url, stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
# conditional image captioning
text = "a photography of"
inputs = processor(raw_image, text, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda", torch.float16)
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
# >>> a photography of a woman and her dog
# unconditional image captioning
inputs = processor(raw_image, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda", torch.float16)
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
>>> a woman sitting on the beach with her dog
```
</details>
## BibTex and citation info
```
@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.12086,
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2201.12086},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086},
author = {Li, Junnan and Li, Dongxu and Xiong, Caiming and Hoi, Steven},
keywords = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
title = {BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2022},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}
``` |