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| # 🏙️ BLIP Image Captioning for Municipality Use (Graduation Project) |
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| This is a fine-tuned version of [Salesforce's BLIP base model](https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base), 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 |
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| - **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 |
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| - **Base Model:** [Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base](https://huggingface.co/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 |
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| 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. |
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| > ⚠️ The dataset is not publicly released due to privacy and data ownership considerations. |
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| ## ✅ Intended Use |
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| This model is designed for: |
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| - Generating captions for street-level and city infrastructure images. |
| - Assisting municipalities in monitoring, analyzing, and documenting visual data. |
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| ## ❌ Limitations |
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| - 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 |
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| - This model is released under the **MIT License**. |
| - It is based on the [Salesforce BLIP model](https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base), 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 |
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| - 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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