BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:49:48 GMT
• Title: BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
• Authors: Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Caiming Xiong, Steven Hoi
• Abstract summary: We propose BLIP, a new vision-language framework which transfers flexibly to both vision-language understanding and generation tasks. BLIP effectively utilizes the noisy web data by bootstrapping the captions, where a captioner generates synthetic captions and a filter removes the noisy ones. BLIP also demonstrates strong generalization ability when directly transferred to video-language tasks in a zero-shot manner.
• Score: 86.4572981982407
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance for many vision-language tasks. However, most existing pre-trained models only excel in either understanding-based tasks or generation-based tasks. Furthermore, performance improvement has been largely achieved by scaling up the dataset with noisy image-text pairs collected from the web, which is a suboptimal source of supervision. In this paper, we propose BLIP, a new VLP framework which transfers flexibly to both vision-language understanding and generation tasks. BLIP effectively utilizes the noisy web data by bootstrapping the captions, where a captioner generates synthetic captions and a filter removes the noisy ones. We achieve state-of-the-art results on a wide range of vision-language tasks, such as image-text retrieval (+2.7% in average recall@1), image captioning (+2.8% in CIDEr), and VQA (+1.6% in VQA score). BLIP also demonstrates strong generalization ability when directly transferred to video-language tasks in a zero-shot manner. Code, models, and datasets are released at https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP.

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