groundeddino-vl 1.1.0

GroundedDINO-VL vision-language backend

GroundedDINO-VL

Modern Vision-Language Foundation Models for PyTorch 2.7 + CUDA 12.8

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Overview

GroundedDINO-VL is a modern, independent vision-language framework derived from GroundingDINO, fully refactored and maintained for current GPU infrastructure with PyTorch 2.7 and CUDA 12.8 support.

This project is now fully independent from the original GroundingDINO implementation, with a clean, modern codebase while maintaining full compatibility with GroundingDINO model weights and providing backward compatibility for existing code.

Key Features

• Fully Independent: Clean break from legacy code - single source of truth in groundeddino_vl/
• Modern Stack: PyTorch 2.7 + CUDA 12.8 support
• Zero-Shot Detection: Detect objects using natural language descriptions
• High Performance: Compatible with GroundingDINO's COCO zero-shot 52.5 AP weights
• Backward Compatible: Legacy groundingdino namespace supported via compatibility shim
• Clean Architecture: Refactored package structure with better organization
• Label Studio Integration: Real-time ML backend for auto-annotation workflows
• 95% Package Size Reduction: Eliminated duplicate code (9,000+ lines removed)

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Example Results

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Documentation Index

Getting Started

• Installation Guide - System requirements, installation methods, and verification
• Quick Start Guide - Basic usage examples and common workflows
• API Reference - Complete API documentation with examples
• Batch Inference - Process thousands of images with COCO/YOLO/Label Studio export

Advanced Topics

• Label Studio Integration - Auto-annotation and ML backend setup
• Building from Source - Detailed compilation and build instructions
• Project Structure - Codebase organization and architecture

Migration & Compatibility

• GroundingDINO Migration Guide - Migrating from legacy groundingdino namespace
• API Migration Guide - Upgrading from previous versions
• Independence Note: GroundedDINO-VL is now fully independent with all code in groundeddino_vl/. The groundingdino/ namespace provides backward compatibility via a lightweight shim.

Integration & Deployment

• Testing & Validation - Test suite, CI/CD, and quality assurance
• Security Best Practices - Security guidelines and considerations

Contributing & Support

• Contributing Guidelines - How to contribute to the project
• Changelog - Version history and release notes
• Troubleshooting - Common issues and solutions

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Quick Installation

Via PyPI (Recommended)

pip install groundeddino_vl

With GPU Support (CUDA 12.8)

pip install torch torchvision --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
pip install groundeddino_vl

From Source

git clone https://github.com/ghostcipher1/GroundedDINO-VL.git
cd GroundedDINO-VL
pip install torch torchvision --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
pip install -e .

See Installation Guide for detailed instructions and system requirements.

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Quick Start Example

from groundeddino_vl import load_model, predict, annotate

# Load model (auto-downloads weights on first run)
model = load_model(
    config_path="path/to/config.py",
    checkpoint_path="path/to/weights.pth",
    device="cuda"
)

# Run detection with text prompt
result = predict(
    model=model,
    image="path/to/image.jpg",
    text_prompt="car . person . dog",
    box_threshold=0.35,
    text_threshold=0.25,
)

# Visualize results
annotated_image = annotate(image, result, show_labels=True)

See Quick Start Guide for more examples and usage patterns.

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Label Studio Integration

GroundedDINO-VL includes an optional Label Studio ML Backend for real-time auto-annotation:

• On-demand inference via FastAPI service
• Auto-labeling with the "magic wand" feature
• Batch annotation assistance
• PostgreSQL/SQLite history logging

Complete setup guide: Label Studio Integration Documentation

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Research Foundation

This project is based on the groundbreaking work:

Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection

@article{liu2023grounding,
  title={Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection},
  author={Liu, Shilong and Zeng, Zhaoyang and Ren, Tianhe and Li, Feng and Zhang, Hao and Yang, Jie and Li, Chunyuan and Yang, Jianwei and Su, Hang and Zhu, Jun and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.05499},
  year={2023}
}

Original Project: IDEA-Research/GroundingDINO Paper: arXiv:2303.05499

Research Benchmarks

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System Requirements

Component	Requirement
Python	3.9, 3.10, 3.11, or 3.12
PyTorch	2.7.0+
CUDA (optional)	12.6 or 12.8
C++ Compiler	GCC 7+, Clang 5+, or MSVC 2019+
GPU (optional)	NVIDIA with Compute Capability 6.0+

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License

Copyright (c) 2025 GhostCipher. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.

Original GroundingDINO License

Copyright (c) 2023 IDEA. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

This project maintains the original Apache 2.0 license and properly attributes the original GroundingDINO research team.

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Acknowledgments

• GroundingDINO Team at IDEA Research for the original research and implementation
• Deformable DETR for the multi-scale deformable attention mechanism
• DINO for the transformer-based detection architecture
• PyTorch Team for the excellent deep learning framework

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Links

• Homepage: github.com/ghostcipher1/GroundedDINO-VL
• PyPI: pypi.org/project/groundeddino_vl
• Original GroundingDINO: github.com/IDEA-Research/GroundingDINO
• Issues: github.com/ghostcipher1/GroundedDINO-VL/issues

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