PApassword4321·Jan 23, 2025Submission
Run OpenAI's CLIP and Apple's MobileCLIP model on iOS to search photos
1 points · Open discussionmazzzystar
Queryable
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Queryable
Run OpenAI's CLIP and Apple's MobileCLIP model on iOS to search photos.
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Run OpenAI's CLIP and Apple's MobileCLIP model on iOS to search photos.
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What Hacker News says
10 sourcesApple/Android devices could assist with offline image analysis and metadata generation, https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable
In TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystemQueryable: iOS offline natural language photo search with Apple MobileCLIP
2 points · Open discussionI've been enjoying https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable on iPhone
In Show HN: Sisi – Semantic Image Search CLI tool, locally without third party APIsI just use the apple measure tool. Not dealing with that level of precision, just to measure things in the house to see if furniture will fit or not.
For the image search, i use this https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable
In iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro MaxRun Apple's MobileCLIP on mobile devices
6 points · Open discussionRun OpenAI's CLIP model on iOS to search photos.
https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable
In Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation ModelsYou might be interested in this, https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable, https://queryable.app/
I run it on my iPhone.
Native app. Doesn't require a network connection (great for privacy).
> Queryable is a Core ML model that runs locally on your device. Leveraging OpenAI CLIP's model encoding technology to connect images and text, you can search your iPhone photo album using any natural language input. Most importantly, it is completely offline, so your album privacy will not be revealed to anyone. And, it is open-source: GitHub
In I accidentally built a meme search engine> We have great tools for searching a single one of these dimensions, but we‘re severely lacking in combining all of them into an exploratory interface
I would recommend you to try an open-source semantic photo search app I've made, it's called Queryable. See: https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable
In Exploring EXIFI think you would want to use something like CLIP embeddings for image search.
Really enjoyed using this app for iOS: https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34686947
Or explore the dataset stable diffusion was trained on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655497
In Meta's Segment Anything written with C++ / GGML