owlvit-large-patch14
by google
Simple open-vocabulary object detection with Vision Transformers
google/owlvit-large-patch14mixpeek://image_extractor@v1/google_owlvit_large_v1Overview
OWL-ViT transfers image-text pre-trained models to open-vocabulary object detection using a standard ViT with minimal modifications. It supports both text-conditioned zero-shot detection and one-shot image-conditioned detection.
On Mixpeek, OWL-ViT provides a clean, well-scaling detection model that improves consistently with larger pre-trained backbones and more data.
Architecture
Plain Vision Transformer (ViT-L/14) pre-trained with contrastive image-text learning, then fine-tuned end-to-end for detection. No detection-specific backbone changes needed.
Mixpeek SDK Integration
// No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
// GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so owlvit-large-patch14 runs
// on your side and the output is upserted through POST
// /v1/namespaces/{namespace_id}/documents/upsert. On Enterprise the other
// path is to upload the weights instead: POST /v1/namespaces/{id}/models
// accepts the huggingface format and a custom plugin loads them.
const res = await fetch(
"https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/namespaces/ns_your_namespace/documents/upsert",
{
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
collection_id: "col_your_collection",
documents: [
{
document_id: "asset-00412",
// Boxes, masks, depth maps and anomaly scores are structured
// results, not vectors. They go in payload and are reachable
// through pre_filters on a retriever, not through similarity.
payload: {
detections: modelOutput,
source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412",
},
},
],
}),
},
);
// No managed alternative for an open label set. Two extractors do emit a
// bbox, for the one thing each detects: document_graph_extractor@v1 per
// layout block, face_identity_extractor@v1 per face. Nothing ships that
// returns masks, depth maps or anomaly scores.Capabilities
- Zero-shot text-conditioned object detection
- One-shot image-conditioned detection
- Consistent scaling with model and data size
- Standard ViT architecture, minimal modifications
Use Cases on Mixpeek
Benchmarks
| Dataset | Metric | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| LVIS (zero-shot) | AP_rare | 31.2 | Minderer et al., 2022: Table 1 |
| COCO (zero-shot) | AP | 34.6 | Minderer et al., 2022: Table 1 |
Performance
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Specification
Research Paper
Simple Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision Transformers
arxiv.orgBuild a pipeline with owlvit-large-patch14
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