Recognize Anything: A Strong Image Tagging Model

We present the Recognize Anything Model (RAM): a strong foundation model for image tagging. RAM makes a substantial step for foundation models in computer vision, demonstrating the zero-shot ability to recognize any common category with high accuracy. By leveraging large-scale image-text pairs for training instead of manual annotations, RAM introduces a new paradigm for image tagging.The development of RAM comprises four key steps. Firstly, annotation-free image tags are obtained at scale through automatic text semantic parsing. Subsequently, a preliminary model is trained for automatic annotation by unifying the captioning and tagging tasks, supervised by the original texts and parsed tags, respectively.…