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title: Image Captioning
emoji: 🖼️📝
colorFrom: pink
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 4.41.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: afl-3.0
---

# Image Captioning App

This application provides a simple interface to generate captions for images using a pre-trained model from Hugging Face's Transformers library.

## Features

- **Image Captioning**: Automatically generate descriptive captions for uploaded images.
- **User-Friendly Interface**: Built using Gradio for an easy-to-use web interface.

## Model

- **Model Used**: [Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base](https://huggingface.co./Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base)
- **Framework**: Hugging Face Transformers

## Software Packages

- **Gradio**: Used to create the web interface.
- **Transformers**: Used for model inference.
- **Spaces**: Utilized for GPU acceleration during model execution.

## How to Use

1. Upload an image using the "Upload image" button.
2. The app will automatically generate and display a caption for the image.
3. The generated caption will appear in the textbox labeled "Caption".