ML Ferret
Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity
Ferret is Apple’s end-to-end multimodal large language model designed specifically for flexible referring and grounding: it can understand references of any granularity (boxes, points, free-form regions) and then ground open-vocabulary descriptions back onto the image. The core idea is a hybrid region representation that mixes discrete coordinates with continuous visual features, so the model can fluidly handle “any-form” referring while maintaining precise spatial localization. The repo...