VLDet: Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection,
Chuang Lin, Peize Sun, Yi Jiang, Ping Luo, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari, Zehuan Yuan, Jianfei Cai,
ICLR 2023 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14843)

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We are excited to announce that our paper was accepted to ICLR 2023! 🥳🥳🥳

A quick explainable video demo for VLDet

Performance

Open-Vocabulary on COCO

Open-Vocabulary on LVIS

Installation

Requirements

• Linux or macOS with Python ≥ 3.7
• PyTorch ≥ 1.9. Install them together at pytorch.org to make sure of this. Note, please check PyTorch version matches that is required by Detectron2.
• Detectron2: follow Detectron2 installation instructions.

Example conda environment setup

conda create --name VLDet python=3.7 -y
conda activate VLDet
conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio cudatoolkit=11.1 -c pytorch-lts -c nvidia

# under your working directory

git clone https://github.com/clin1223/VLDet.git
cd VLDet
cd detectron2
pip install -e .
cd ..
pip install -r requirements.txt

Features

• Directly learn an open-vocabulary object detector from image-text pairs by formulating the task as a bipartite matching problem.

• State-of-the-art results on Open-vocabulary LVIS and Open-vocabulary COCO.

• Scaling and extending novel object vocabulary easily.

Benchmark evaluation and training

Please first prepare datasets.

The VLDet models are finetuned on the corresponding Box-Supervised models (indicated by MODEL.WEIGHTS in the config files). Please train or download the Box-Supervised model and place them under VLDet_ROOT/models/ before training the VLDet models.

To train a model, run

python train_net.py --num-gpus 8 --config-file /path/to/config/name.yaml

To evaluate a model with a trained/ pretrained model, run

python train_net.py --num-gpus 8 --config-file /path/to/config/name.yaml --eval-only MODEL.WEIGHTS /path/to/weight.pth

Download the trained network weights here.

Citation

If you find this project useful for your research, please use the following BibTeX entry.

@article{VLDet,
  title={Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection},
  author={Lin, Chuang and Sun, Peize and Jiang, Yi and Luo, Ping and Qu, Lizhen and Haffari, Gholamreza and Yuan, Zehuan and Cai, Jianfei},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14843},
  year={2022}
}

Acknowledgement

This repository was built on top of Detectron2, Detic, RegionCLIP and OVR-CNN. We thank for their hard work.