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Introduction

This repo presents some example codes to reproduce some results in GIT: A Generative Image-to-text Transformer for Vision and Language.

Installation

  • Install azfuse. The tool is used to automatically download the data. The configuration of AzFuse has already been in this repo.

  • Download the source code by

    git clone https://github.com/microsoft/GenerativeImage2Text.git
    cd GenerativeImage2Text
  • Install the package

    pip install -r requirements.txt
    python setup.py build develop

Inference

  • Inference on a single image or multiple frames:

    # single image, captioning
    AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_image', \
          'image_path': 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', \
          'model_name': 'GIT_BASE', \
          'prefix': '', \
    }"
    # single image, question answering
    AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_image', \
          'image_path': 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', \
          'model_name': 'GIT_BASE_VQAv2', \
          'prefix': 'what is it?', \
    }"
    # multiple images, captioning
    AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_image', \
          'image_path': ['aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg'], \
          'model_name': 'GIT_BASE_VATEX', \
          'prefix': '', \
    }"
    # multiple images, question answering
    AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_image', \
          'image_path': ['aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/1.jpg'], \
          'model_name': 'GIT_BASE_MSRVTT_QA', \
          'prefix': 'what is it?', \
    }"
    • If prefix is empty, it is effectively the captioning task.

    • If prefix is a question, it is effectively the visual question answering task.

    • Use a list for image_path if it is for video. The example here is 6 identical images, only for a demo purpose. It should be different image frames from a video.

    • model_name here can be the following. Performance details can be found in the reference paper.

      model_name Information Performance
      GIT_BASE pretrained on 4M images
      GIT_BASE_COCO fine-tuned on COCO CIDEr: 131.4
      GIT_BASE_TEXTCAPS fine-tuned on TextCaps for captioning val/CIDEr: 64.9
      GIT_BASE_VQAv2 fine-tuned on VQAv2 test-dev: 72.72
      GIT_BASE_TEXTVQA fine-tuned on TextVQA val/acc: 18.81
      GIT_BASE_VATEX fine-tuned on VATEX for captioning public/test/CIDEr: 60.0
      GIT_BASE_MSRVTT fine-tuned on MSRVTT for captioning test/CIDEr: 57.8
      GIT_BASE_MSRVTT_QA fine-tuned on MSRVTT for question answering acc: 41.0
      GIT_LARGE pretrained on 14M images
      GIT_LARGE_COCO fine-tuned on COCO CIDEr: 138.5
      GIT_LARGE_TEXTCAPS fine-tuned on TextCaps for captioning val/CIDEr: 106.3
      GIT_LARGE_VQAv2 fine-tuned on VQAv2 test-dev: 75.51
      GIT_LARGE_TEXTVQA fine-tuned on TextVQA val/acc: 37.47
      GIT_LARGE_VATEX fine-tuned on VATEX for captioning public/test/CIDEr: 72.5
      GIT_LARGE_MSRVTT fine-tuned on MSRVTT for captioning test/CIDEr: 64.1
      GIT_LARGE_MSRVTT_QA fine-tuned on MSRVTT for question answering acc: 42.7
    • In the dataset of cc12m, the caption may contain some special tags to hide person names and the model might also predict such special tokens. To eliminate this issue, we remove these captions (around 25% in cc12m), and re-trained the large-sized model. The base-sized model is not affected as cc12 is not part of the training data.

      model_name Information Performance
      GIT_LARGE_R pretrained on 14M images with special tag removed
      GIT_LARGE_R_COCO fine-tuned on COCO CIDEr: 137.6
      GIT_LARGE_R_TEXTCAPS fine-tuned on TextCaps for captioning val/CIDEr: 105.3
  • Inference on a TSV file, which is a collection of multiple images.

    • Data format (for information only)
      • image TSV: Each row has two columns. The first is the image key; the second is base64-encoded jpg or png bit string.
      • caption or question tsv: Each row has two columns. The first is the image key; the second is a list of dictionaries in the json format. For caption TSV, the dictionary should contain at least the field of 'caption'. For the question answering TSV, it should contain at least question_id and question.
    • inference on COCO Karpathy test.
      1. Inference.
        # base
        AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_tsv', \
              'image_tsv': 'data/coco_caption/test.img.tsv', \
              'model_name': 'GIT_BASE_COCO', \
              'question_tsv': null, \
              'out_tsv': 'inference/GIT_BASE_COCO/coco.tsv', \
        }"
        # GIT_LARGE_COCO. If there are 8 GPUs, it can parallel by mpirun -n 8
        AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 mpirun -n 8 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_tsv', \
              'image_tsv': 'data/coco_caption/test.img.tsv', \
              'model_name': 'GIT_LARGE_COCO', \
              'question_tsv': null, \
              'out_tsv': 'inference/GIT_LARGE_COCO/coco.tsv', \
        }"
      2. Calculate the evaluation metric
        # base
        AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'evaluate_on_coco_caption', \
              'res_file': 'inference/GIT_BASE_COCO/coco.tsv', \
              'label_file': 'data/coco_caption/test.caption.tsv', \
        }"
        The CIDEr score should be 131.35 for GIT_BASE_COCO and 138.45 for GIT_LARGE_COCO. If you get lower score (e.g. 126 for the base model), the reason could be the misalignment of the environment, e.g. pytorch version.
      3. (optional) To exactly reproduce the number, please run the following:
        nvidia-docker run --ipc=host amsword/setup:py38pt19u20cu11 \
            bash -c "mkdir -p /tmp/code \
                    && cd /tmp/code \
                    && pip install git+https://github.com/microsoft/azfuse.git \
                    && git clone https://github.com/amsword/generativeimage2text.git \
                    && cd generativeimage2text \
                    && pip install -r requirements.txt \
                    && python setup.py build develop \
                    && AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_tsv', \
                             'image_tsv': 'data/coco_caption/test.img.tsv', \
                             'model_name': 'GIT_BASE_COCO', \
                             'question_tsv': null, \
                             'out_tsv': 'inference/GIT_BASE_COCO/coco.tsv', \
                       }" \
                    &&  AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'evaluate_on_coco_caption', \
                        'res_file': 'inference/GIT_BASE_COCO/coco.tsv', \
                        'label_file': 'data/coco_caption/test.caption.tsv', \
                        'outfile': 'inference/GIT_BASE_COCO/coco.score.json', \
                        }" \
                    && cat inference/GIT_BASE_COCO/coco.score.json \
                    "
    • Inference on vqa test
      1. Inference

        # base model
        AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_tsv', \
              'image_tsv': 'data/TaxVQAv2/test.tsv', \
              'model_name': 'GIT_BASE_VQAv2', \
              'question_tsv': 'data/TaxVQAv2/test.caption.tsv', \
              'out_tsv': 'inference/GIT_BASE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.tsv', \
        }"
        # GIT_LARGE_VQAv2 with 8 GPUs.
        AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 mpirun -n 8 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_tsv', \
              'image_tsv': 'data/TaxVQAv2/test.tsv', \
              'model_name': 'GIT_LARGE_VQAv2', \
              'question_tsv': 'data/TaxVQAv2/test.caption.tsv', \
              'out_tsv': 'inference/GIT_LARGE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.tsv', \
        }"
      2. Convert the output tsv to the json format for submission to evalai

        # base model
        AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'convert_tsv_to_vqa_json', \
              'predict_file': 'inference/GIT_BASE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.tsv', \
              'out_json': 'inference/GIT_BASE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.json', \
        }"
        # large model
        AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'convert_tsv_to_vqa_json', \
              'predict_file': 'inference/GIT_LARGE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.tsv', \
              'out_json': 'inference/GIT_LARGE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.json', \
        }"

        Submit the file of inference/GIT_BASE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.json to evalai and you should get 72.72 on test-dev. If it is GIT_LARGE_VQAv2, the accuracy is 75.51.

      3. (optional) To exactly reproduce the number, you can use the following:

        # base model
        nvidia-docker run --ipc=host amsword/setup:py38pt19u20cu11 \
            bash -c "mkdir /tmp/code \
                    && cd /tmp/code \
                    && pip install git+https://github.com/microsoft/azfuse.git \
                    && git clone https://github.com/amsword/generativeimage2text.git \
                    && cd generativeimage2text \
                    && pip install -r requirements.txt \
                    && python setup.py build develop \
                    && AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'test_git_inference_single_tsv', \
                        'image_tsv': 'data/TaxVQAv2/test.tsv', \
                        'model_name': 'GIT_BASE_VQAv2', \
                        'question_tsv': 'data/TaxVQAv2/test.caption.tsv', \
                        'out_tsv': 'inference/GIT_BASE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.tsv', \
                    }" \
                    &&  AZFUSE_TSV_USE_FUSE=1 python -m generativeimage2text.inference -p "{'type': 'convert_tsv_to_vqa_json', \
                        'predict_file': 'inference/GIT_BASE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.tsv', \
                        'out_json': 'inference/GIT_BASE_VQAv2/snapshot/vqav2.json', \
                    }" \
        }"

        Note that, please modify the docker command properly so that the output file can be saved permanently to the host machine. It is also recommended to run it inside the docker container by

        nvidia-docker run --ipc=host amsword/setup:py38pt19u20cu11 sleep infinity
        docker ps # get the docker container ID
        docker exec -it container_id /bin/bash # attach inside the docker container
        # all other commands to run the inference.

Training

The repo shows the key code path of constructing the network input with transformations and forward/backward. The code can be plugged into any trainer easily. Here is the example for the base model.

  • Pretraining/captioning
    python -m generativeimage2text.train -p "{'type': 'forward_backward_example', \
                    'image_files': ['aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/2.jpg'], \
                    'captions': ['a couple of boats in a large body of water.', 'a view of a mountain with a tree'], \
                }"
    
  • VQA
    python -m generativeimage2text.train -p "{'type': 'forward_backward_example', \
                    'image_files': ['aux_data/images/1.jpg', 'aux_data/images/2.jpg'], \
                    'prefixs': ['what is this?', 'how many trees?'], \
                    'captions': ['several boats in a large body of water', '1'], \
                }"
    

ImageNet

Class ID to unique readable names

  • Save the file of LOC_synset_mapping.txt from Kaggle. under aux_data/imagenet/

  • Convert the wordnet ID to readable names as follows

    python -m generativeimage2text.data_prepare -p "{'type': 'generate_imagenet_unique_names'}"

    The input file is hard coded as ./aux_data/imagenet/LOC_synset_mapping.txt and the output file is ./aux_data/imagenet/imagenet_unique_readable_names.txt

Citation

Please consider to cite the following reference if it helps.

@article{wang2022git,
  title={GIT: A Generative Image-to-text Transformer for Vision and Language},
  author={Wang, Jianfeng and Yang, Zhengyuan and Hu, Xiaowei and Li, Linjie and Lin, Kevin and Gan, Zhe and Liu, Zicheng and Liu, Ce and Wang, Lijuan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14100},
  year={2022}
}

Misc

The model is now available in 🤗 Transformers. You can also find a fine-tuning guide on image captioning with GIT here. Thanks to Niels Rogge for contributing the model to 🤗 Transformers and Sayak Paul for the fine-tuning guide.

Acknowledgement

Part of the code is based on transformers, clip, maskrcnn-benchmark, oscar, virtex.

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