In plain words: A tool cuts an image into regions and labels each with letters or boxes, so a vision chatbot can point to exactly what a question means. With these marks, GPT-4V beat a fully trained specialist at picking out described objects, without any training of its own.
Abstract
We present Set-of-Mark (SoM), a new visual prompting method, to unleash the visual grounding abilities of large multimodal models (LMMs), such as GPT-4V. As illustrated in Fig. 1 (right), we employ off-the-shelf interactive segmentation models, such as SEEM/SAM, to partition an image into regions at different levels of granularity, and overlay these regions with a set of marks e.g., alphanumerics, masks, boxes. Using the marked image as input, GPT-4V can answer the questions that require visual grounding. We perform a comprehensive empirical study to validate the effectiveness of SoM on a wide range of fine-grained vision and multimodal tasks. For example, our experiments show that GPT-4V with SoM in zero-shot setting outperforms the state-of-the-art fully-finetuned referring expression comprehension and segmentation model on RefCOCOg. Code for SoM prompting is made public at: https://github.com/microsoft/SoM.
Jianwei Yang, Hao Zhang, Feng Li, Xueyan Zou, Chunyuan Li, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv:2310.11441 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.HC · submitted Oct 17, 2023 · updated Nov 6, 2023
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