BLIP

Overview

The BLIP model was proposed in BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation by Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Caiming Xiong, Steven Hoi.

BLIP is a model that is able to perform various multi-modal tasks including

Visual Question Answering
Image-Text retrieval (Image-text matching)
Image Captioning

The abstract from the paper is the following:

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.

This model was contributed by ybelkada. The original code can be found here.

Resources

Jupyter notebook on how to fine-tune BLIP for image captioning on a custom dataset

BlipConfig

[[autodoc]] BlipConfig - from_text_vision_configs

BlipTextConfig

[[autodoc]] BlipTextConfig

BlipVisionConfig

[[autodoc]] BlipVisionConfig

BlipProcessor

[[autodoc]] BlipProcessor

BlipImageProcessor

[[autodoc]] BlipImageProcessor - preprocess

BlipModel

[[autodoc]] BlipModel - forward - get_text_features - get_image_features

BlipTextModel

[[autodoc]] BlipTextModel - forward

BlipVisionModel

[[autodoc]] BlipVisionModel - forward

BlipForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] BlipForConditionalGeneration - forward

BlipForImageTextRetrieval

[[autodoc]] BlipForImageTextRetrieval - forward

BlipForQuestionAnswering

[[autodoc]] BlipForQuestionAnswering - forward

TFBlipModel

[[autodoc]] TFBlipModel - call - get_text_features - get_image_features

TFBlipTextModel

[[autodoc]] TFBlipTextModel - call

TFBlipVisionModel

[[autodoc]] TFBlipVisionModel - call

TFBlipForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] TFBlipForConditionalGeneration - call

TFBlipForImageTextRetrieval

[[autodoc]] TFBlipForImageTextRetrieval - call

TFBlipForQuestionAnswering

[[autodoc]] TFBlipForQuestionAnswering - call