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Grounded Language-Image Pre-training

7 Dec 2021CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2112.03857archive 2025-07-28

Liunian Harold Li, Pengchuan Zhang, Haotian Zhang, Jianwei Yang, Chunyuan Li, Yiwu Zhong, Lijuan Wang, Lu Yuan, Lei Zhang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kai-Wei Chang, Jianfeng Gao

This paper presents a grounded language-image pre-training (GLIP) model for learning object-level, language-aware, and semantic-rich visual representations. GLIP unifies object detection and phrase grounding for pre-training. The unification brings two benefits: 1) it allows GLIP to learn from both detection and grounding data to improve both tasks and bootstrap a good grounding model; 2) GLIP can leverage massive image-text pairs by generating grounding boxes in a self-training fashion, making the learned representation semantic-rich. In our experiments, we pre-train GLIP on 27M grounding data, including 3M human-annotated and 24M web-crawled image-text pairs. The learned representations demonstrate strong zero-shot and few-shot transferability to various object-level recognition tasks. 1) When directly evaluated on COCO and LVIS (without seeing any images in COCO during pre-training), GLIP achieves 49.8 AP and 26.9 AP, respectively, surpassing many supervised baselines. 2) After fine-tuned on COCO, GLIP achieves 60.8 AP on val and 61.5 AP on test-dev, surpassing prior SoTA. 3) When transferred to 13 downstream object detection tasks, a 1-shot GLIP rivals with a fully-supervised Dynamic Head. Code is released at https://github.com/microsoft/GLIP.

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2D Object DetectionDescribed Object DetectionFew-Shot Object DetectionObject DetectionZero-Shot Object Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
2D Object Detection RF100 GLIP Average mAP 0.112 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Described Object Detection Description Detection Dataset GLIP-T Intra-scenario ABS mAP 21.5 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Described Object Detection Description Detection Dataset GLIP-T Intra-scenario FULL mAP 19.1 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Described Object Detection Description Detection Dataset GLIP-T Intra-scenario PRES mAP 18.3 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Object Detection ODinW-13 GLIP-T Average Score 50.7 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Object Detection ODinW-35 GLIP-T Average Score 38.9 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO minival GLIP (Swin-L, multi-scale) box AP 60.8 #19 of 220 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO test-dev GLIP (Swin-L, multi-scale) AP50 79.5 #23 of 225 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO test-dev GLIP (Swin-L, multi-scale) AP75 67.7 #23 of 225 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO test-dev GLIP (Swin-L, multi-scale) APL 75.0 #23 of 225 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO test-dev GLIP (Swin-L, multi-scale) APM 64.9 #23 of 225 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO test-dev GLIP (Swin-L, multi-scale) APS 45.3 #23 of 225 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO test-dev GLIP (Swin-L, multi-scale) box mAP 61.5 #23 of 225 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO-O GLIP-L (Swin-L) Average mAP 48.0 #3 of 45 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO-O GLIP-L (Swin-L) Effective Robustness 24.89 #3 of 45 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO-O GLIP-T (Swin-T) Average mAP 29.1 #21 of 45 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO-O GLIP-T (Swin-T) Effective Robustness 8.11 #21 of 45 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection ODinW Full-Shot 13 Tasks GLIP AP 68.9 #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Phrase Grounding Flickr30k Entities Test GLIP R@1 87.1 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Phrase Grounding Flickr30k Entities Test GLIP R@10 98.1 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Phrase Grounding Flickr30k Entities Test GLIP R@5 96.9 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 minival GLIP-L AP 37.3 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 val GLIP-L AP 26.9 #7 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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