A ComfyUI Node for adding BLIP in CLIPTextEncode

Announcement: BLIP is now officially integrated into CLIPTextEncode

Dependencies

• [x] Fairscale>=0.4.4 (NOT in ComfyUI)
• [x] Transformers==4.26.1 (already in ComfyUI)
• [x] Timm>=0.4.12 (already in ComfyUI)
• [x] Gitpython (already in ComfyUI)

Local Installation

Inside ComfyUI_windows_portable\python_embeded, run:

<pre>python.exe -m pip install fairscale</pre>

And, inside ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\custom_nodes, run:

<pre>git clone https://github.com/paulo-coronado/comfy_clip_blip_node</pre>

Google Colab Installation

Add a cell with the following code:

<pre> !pip install fairscale !cd custom_nodes && git clone https://github.com/paulo-coronado/comfy_clip_blip_node </pre>

How to use

1. Add the CLIPTextEncodeBLIP node;
2. Connect the node with an image and select a value for min_length and max_length;
3. Optional: if you want to embed the BLIP text in a prompt, use the keyword BLIP_TEXT (e.g. "a photo of BLIP_TEXT", medium shot, intricate details, highly detailed).

Acknowledgement

The implementation of CLIPTextEncodeBLIP relies on resources from <a href="https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP">BLIP</a>, <a href="https://github.com/salesforce/ALBEF">ALBEF</a>, <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/transformers">Huggingface Transformers</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/tree/master/timm">timm</a>. We thank the original authors for their open-sourcing.