MetaCLIP VS YOLO-World

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Whenever I’m working on semantic search applications that connect images and text, I start with a family of models known as contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP). These models are trained on image-text pairs to generate similar vector representations or embeddings for images and their captions, and dissimilar vectors when images are paired with other text strings. There are multiple CLIP-style models, including OpenCLIP and MetaCLIP, but for simplicity we’ll focus on the original CLIP model from OpenAI. No model is perfect, and at a fundamental level there is no right way to compare images and text, but CLIP certainly provides a good starting point.

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Post author here. I like this idea. I plan to explore it and make a more generic solution. I'd love to have a point-and-click interface for annotating scenes.

For example, I'd like to be able to click on pieces of coffee equipment in a photo of my coffee setup so I can add sticky note annotations when you hover over each item.

For the bookshelves idea specifically, I would love to have a correction system in place. The problem isn't so much SAM as it is Grounding DINO, the model I'm using for object identification. I then pass each identified region to SAM and map the segmentation mask to the box.

Grounding DINO detects a lot of book spines, but often misses 1-2. I am planning to try out YOLO-World (https://github.com/AILab-CVC/YOLO-World), which, in my limited testing, performs better for this task.