GroundingGPT: Language-Enhanced Multi-modal Grounding Model

Introduction

GroundingGPT is an end-to-end multimodal grounding model that accurately comprehends inputs and possesses robust grounding capabilities across multi modalities,including images, audios, and videos. To address the issue of limited data, we construct a diverse and high-quality multimodal training dataset. This dataset encompasses a rich collection of multimodal data enriched with spatial and temporal information, thereby serving as a valuable resource to foster further advancements in this field. Extensive experimental evaluations validate the effectiveness of the GroundingGPT model in understanding and grounding tasks across various modalities.

More details are available in our project page.

The overall structure of GroundingGPT. Blue boxes represent video as input, while yellow boxes represent image as input.

News

• [2024.5] Our paper is accepted to ACL 2024!
• [2024.4] Our model is available now!
• [2024.3] Our training dataset are available now!
• [2024.3] Our code are available now!

Dependencies and Installation

    git clone https://github.com/lzw-lzw/GroundingGPT.git
    cd GroundingGPT
    conda create -n groundinggpt python=3.10 -y
    conda activate groundinggpt
    pip install -r requirements.txt 
    pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation

Training

Training model preparation

• Put the prepared checkpoints in directory ./ckpt.
• Prepare ImageBind checkpoint: download imagebind_huge.pth in link and put it under directory ./ckpt/imagebind.
• Prepare blip2 checkpoint: download blip2_pretrained_flant5xxl.pth in link and put it under directory ./ckpt.

Training dataset preparation

• Please put the prepared checkpoints in file dataset.
• Prepare LLaVA, COCO, GQA, OCR-VQA, TextVQA, VisualGenome datasets: follow LLaVA.
• Prepare Flickr30K-Entities datasets: follow Flickr30K-Entities.
• Prepare Valley datasets: follow Valley.
• Prepare DiDeMO datasets: follow DiDeMO.
• Prepare ActivityNet Captions datasets: follow ActivityNet Captions.
• Prepare Charades-STA datasets: follow Charades-STA.
• Prepare VGGSS datasets: follow VGGSS.
• Prepare WaveCaps datasets: follow WaveCaps.
• Prepare Clotho datasets: follow Clotho.

Training

Inference

• Download GroundingGPT-7B and change the model_path in GroundingGPT/lego/serve/cli.py

• Use the script to inference

    python3 lego/serve/cli.py
  

Demo

• Download GroundingGPT-7B and change the model_path in line 141 of GroundingGPT/lego/serve/gradio_web_server.py

• Use the script to launch a gradio web demo

    python3 lego/serve/gradio_web_server.py
  

Acknowledgement

• LLaVA
• Video-LLaMA
• Shikra

Citation

If you find GroundingGPT useful for your your research and applications, please cite using this BibTeX:

@inproceedings{li2024groundinggpt,
  title={Groundinggpt: Language enhanced multi-modal grounding model},
  author={Li, Zhaowei and Xu, Qi and Zhang, Dong and Song, Hang and Cai, Yiqing and Qi, Qi and Zhou, Ran and Pan, Junting and Li, Zefeng and Tu, Vu and others},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  pages={6657--6678},
  year={2024}
}