Owlvit Base Patch16

Model Date

May 2022

Model Type

The model uses a CLIP backbone with a ViT-B/16 Transformer architecture as an image encoder and uses a masked self-attention Transformer as a text encoder. These encoders are trained to maximize the similarity of (image, text) pairs via a contrastive loss. The CLIP backbone is trained from scratch and fine-tuned together with the box and class prediction heads with an object detection objective.

Documents

• OWL-ViT Paper

Use with Transformers

import requests
from PIL import Image
import torch

from transformers import OwlViTProcessor, OwlViTForObjectDetection

processor = OwlViTProcessor.from_pretrained("google/owlvit-base-patch16")
model = OwlViTForObjectDetection.from_pretrained("google/owlvit-base-patch16")

url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
texts = [["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"]]
inputs = processor(text=texts, images=image, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model(**inputs)

# Target image sizes (height, width) to rescale box predictions [batch_size, 2]
target_sizes = torch.Tensor([image.size[::-1]])
# Convert outputs (bounding boxes and class logits) to COCO API
results = processor.post_process_object_detection(outputs=outputs, threshold=0.1, target_sizes=target_sizes)

i = 0  # Retrieve predictions for the first image for the corresponding text queries
text = texts[i]
boxes, scores, labels = results[i]["boxes"], results[i]["scores"], results[i]["labels"]

# Print detected objects and rescaled box coordinates
for box, score, label in zip(boxes, scores, labels):
    box = [round(i, 2) for i in box.tolist()]
    print(f"Detected {text[label]} with confidence {round(score.item(), 3)} at location {box}")

Model Use

Intended Use

The model is intended as a research output for research communities. We hope that this model will enable researchers to better understand and explore zero-shot, text-conditioned object detection. We also hope it can be used for interdisciplinary studies of the potential impact of such models, especially in areas that commonly require identifying objects whose label is unavailable during training.

Primary intended uses

The primary intended users of these models are AI researchers.

We primarily imagine the model will be used by researchers to better understand robustness, generalization, and other capabilities, biases, and constraints of computer vision models.

Data

The CLIP backbone of the model was trained on publicly available image-caption data. This was done through a combination of crawling a handful of websites and using commonly-used pre-existing image datasets such as YFCC100M. A large portion of the data comes from our crawling of the internet. This means that the data is more representative of people and societies most connected to the internet. The prediction heads of OWL-ViT, along with the CLIP backbone, are fine-tuned on publicly available object detection datasets such as COCO and OpenImages.

BibTeX entry and citation info

@article{minderer2022simple,
  title={Simple Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision Transformers},
  author={Matthias Minderer, Alexey Gritsenko, Austin Stone, Maxim Neumann, Dirk Weissenborn, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Aravindh Mahendran, Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Zhuoran Shen, Xiao Wang, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Kipf, Neil Houlsby},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.06230},
  year={2022},
}