# Hindi Image Captioning Model This is an encoder-decoder image captioning model made with VIT encoder and GPT2-Hindi as a decoder. This is a first attempt at using ViT + GPT2-Hindi for image captioning task. We used the Flickr8k Hindi Dataset available on kaggle to train the model. This model was trained using HuggingFace course community week, organized by Huggingface. ## How to use Here is how to use this model to caption an image of the Flickr8k dataset: ```python import torch import requests from PIL import Image from transformers import ViTFeatureExtractor, AutoTokenizer, VisionEncoderDecoderModel if torch.cuda.is_available(): device = 'cuda' else: device = 'cpu' url = 'https://shorturl.at/fvxEQ' image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw) encoder_checkpoint = 'google/vit-base-patch16-224' decoder_checkpoint = 'surajp/gpt2-hindi' feature_extractor = ViTFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(encoder_checkpoint) tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(decoder_checkpoint) model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained('team-indain-image-caption/hindi-image-captioning').to(device) #Inference sample = feature_extractor(image, return_tensors="pt").pixel_values.to(device) clean_text = lambda x: x.replace('<|endoftext|>','').split('\n')[0] caption_ids = model.generate(sample, max_length = 50)[0] caption_text = clean_text(tokenizer.decode(caption_ids)) print(caption_text) ``` ## Training data We used the Flickr8k Hindi Dataset, which is the translated version of the original Flickr8k Dataset, available on Kaggle to train the model. ## Training procedure This model was trained during HuggingFace course community week, organized by Huggingface. The training was done on Kaggle GPU.