MuniVis

🏙️ BLIP Image Captioning for Municipality Use (Graduation Project)

This is a fine-tuned version of Salesforce's BLIP base model, customized for generating captions on images related to street infrastructure and urban environments.
The model was developed as part of a Graduation Project at the College of Information Systems.

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🎓 Graduation Project Information

• Project Title: Smart Captioning for Urban Monitoring Using AI
• Student Name: Saja
• University Major: Information Systems
• Semester: Final Year – Graduation Project 1
• Purpose: This model aims to assist municipalities in automatically generating descriptive captions for street and infrastructure images using AI.

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🧠 Model Overview

• Base Model: Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base
• Architecture: BLIP (Bootstrapped Language Image Pretraining)
• Task: Image Captioning (with a focus on municipality-related data)

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🏙️ Dataset

This model was fine-tuned on a custom dataset consisting of images captured in urban environments (e.g., roads, signs, sidewalks) for the purpose of city infrastructure monitoring.

⚠️ The dataset is not publicly released due to privacy and data ownership considerations.

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✅ Intended Use

This model is designed for:

• Generating captions for street-level and city infrastructure images.
• Assisting municipalities in monitoring, analyzing, and documenting visual data.

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❌ Limitations

• May not generalize well to domains outside of urban/street imagery.
• Captions might be biased by the dataset or lack context in unfamiliar scenes.
• Does not include object detection – focuses on captioning only.

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📜 License

• This model is released under the MIT License.
• It is based on the Salesforce BLIP model, which is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause License.
• Please ensure appropriate credit is given to the original authors when using or redistributing this model.

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🤝 Acknowledgements

• Special thanks to Salesforce Research for the original BLIP model.
• Developed as part of a university graduation project with guidance from faculty members.

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