MetaCLIP VS fiftyone

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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.

pip install -U git+https://github.com/voxel51/fiftyone.git

In this brief walkthrough, I will illustrate how to leverage open-source FiftyOne and Anomalib to build deployment-ready anomaly detection models. First, we will load and visualize the MVTec AD dataset in the FiftyOne App. Next, we will use Albumentations to test out augmentation techniques. We will then train an anomaly detection model with Anomalib and evaluate the model with FiftyOne.

My experience has been much like this. For twenty years, I’ve emphasized scientific and engineering discovery in my work as an academic researcher, publishing these findings at the top conferences in computer vision, AI, and related fields. Yet, at my company, we focus on infrastructure that enables others to unlock scientific discovery. We have built a software framework that enables its users to do better work when training models and curating datasets with large unstructured, visual data — it’s kind of like a PyTorch++ or a Snowflake for unstructured data. This software stack, called FiftyOne in its single-user open source incarnation and FiftyOne Teams in its collaborative enterprise version, has garnered millions of installations and a vibrant user community.

We will use the Hugging Face transformers and diffusers libraries for inference, FiftyOne for data management and visualization, and scikit-image for evaluation metrics.

With all that background out of the way, let’s turn theory into practice and learn how to use clustering to structure our unstructured data. We’ll be leveraging two open-source machine learning libraries: scikit-learn, which comes pre-packaged with implementations of most common clustering algorithms, and fiftyone, which streamlines the management and visualization of unstructured data:

FiftyOne is the leading open-source toolkit for the curation and visualization of unstructured data, built on top of MongoDB. It leverages the non-relational nature of MongoDB to provide an intuitive interface for working with datasets consisting of images, videos, point clouds, PDFs, and more.

Welcome to our weekly FiftyOne tips and tricks blog where we recap interesting questions and answers that have recently popped up on Slack, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and Reddit.

If you want to perform emoji searches locally with the same visual interface, you can do so with the Emoji Search plugin for FiftyOne.