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Microsoft's new Florence 2 is big for Computer Vision. It's a merge between Text and Vision. With a single prompt you can instruct the model to do CV tasks like captioning, object detection, grounding, and segmentation. The best part, it only uses a single backbone to handle everything. ▸... show more

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AlphaSignal AI2 years ago

@AlphaSignalAI One step closer to AGI..

Dash2 years ago

@AlphaSignalAI Holy shit

Lior⚡2 years ago

@Mrosenmer Can't wait for the repo 👀

Ariyan2 years ago

@AlphaSignalAI @jxnlco @skalskip92 you've seen this?

zachary austin2 years ago

@AlphaSignalAI Look away NSA

ThisAndThat2 years ago

@AlphaSignalAI Well at least the demo is not much different than YOLOv8 or similar. We have been combining a few models to achieve what you have described. If this model can do all that together and with even better performance then great. But I don't trust Microsoft. They suck.

Waseem2 years ago

@AlphaSignalAI I've attempted to do something like this with images and GPT-4V. Results have been pretty good but working on improving it. Plan to put something like this on a robot with a raspberry pi.

alejandro cartagena2 years ago

@AlphaSignalAI Look @elmanmansimov

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