Visual ChatGPT connects ChatGPT and a series of Visual Foundation Models to enable sending and receiving images during chatting.
See our paper: Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models
# create a new environment
conda create -n visgpt python=3.8
# activate the new environment
conda activate visgpt
# prepare the basic environments
pip install -r requirement.txt
# download the visual foundation models
bash download.sh
# prepare your private openAI private key
export OPENAI_API_KEY={Your_Private_Openai_Key}
# create a folder to save images
mkdir ./image
# Start Visual ChatGPT !
python visual_chatgpt.py
Here we list the GPU memory usage of each visual foundation model, one can modify self.tools with fewer visual foundation models to save your GPU memory:
| Foundation Model | Memory Usage (MB) |
|---|---|
| ImageEditing | 6667 |
| ImageCaption | 1755 |
| T2I | 6677 |
| canny2image | 5540 |
| line2image | 6679 |
| hed2image | 6679 |
| scribble2image | 6679 |
| pose2image | 6681 |
| BLIPVQA | 2709 |
| seg2image | 5540 |
| depth2image | 6677 |
| normal2image | 3974 |
| Pix2Pix | 2795 |
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