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.
@article{arxiv.2112.03857,
title = {Grounded Language-Image Pre-training},
author = {Liunian Harold Li and Pengchuan Zhang and Haotian Zhang and Jianwei Yang and Chunyuan Li and Yiwu Zhong and Lijuan Wang and Lu Yuan and Lei Zhang and Jenq-Neng Hwang and Kai-Wei Chang and Jianfeng Gao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03857},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
CVPR 2022; updated visualizations; fixed hyper-parameters in Appendix C.1