OpenAI CLIP vs. Faster R-CNN: Compared and Contrasted

Models

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OpenAI CLIP vs. Faster R-CNN

Both

OpenAI CLIP

and

Faster R-CNN

are commonly used in computer vision projects. Below, we compare and contrast

OpenAI CLIP

and

Faster R-CNN

	OpenAI CLIP	Faster R-CNN
Date of Release	Jan 05, 2021
Model Type	Classification	Object Detection
Architecture
GitHub Stars	11000	7800

OpenAI CLIP

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is an impressive multimodal zero-shot image classifier that achieves impressive results in a wide range of domains with no fine-tuning. It applies the recent advancements in large-scale transformers like GPT-3 to the vision arena.

How to Augment How to Label How to Plot Predictions How to Filter Predictions How to Create a Confusion Matrix

Faster R-CNN

One of the most accurate object detection algorithms but requires a lot of power at inference time. A good choice if you can do processing asynchronously on a server.

How to Augment How to Label How to Plot Predictions How to Filter Predictions How to Create a Confusion Matrix

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