Zero-shot image-to-text generation with BLIP-2

This guide introduces BLIP-2 from Salesforce Research that enables a suite of state-of-the-art visual-language models that are now available in Transformers. We'll show you how to use it for image captioning, prompted image captioning, visual question-answering, and chat-based prompting. Recent years have seen rapid advancements in computer vision and natural language processing. Still, many real-world problems are inherently multimodal - they involve several distinct forms of data, such as images and text. Visual-language models face the challenge of combining modalities so that they can open the door to a wide range of applications.