CapGen 🖼️ — AI Image Caption Generator

CapGen is a web application that generates meaningful captions for any uploaded image in real-time using the BLIP (Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining) model from Hugging Face. Built with Streamlit, it offers a clean, interactive, and user-friendly interface for instant AI-powered image captioning.

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🚀 Features

• Upload images and generate descriptive captions instantly
• Uses BLIP, a state-of-the-art image captioning model
• Fully interactive Streamlit web interface
• Clean and polished UI suitable for portfolios or demos
• Fully local processing, no external API required

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💻 Tech Stack

Tool	Purpose
Python	Core programming language
Streamlit	Front-end for the app
Hugging Face	BLIP model and inference
Torch	Backend deep learning lib
PIL	Image processing

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⚙️ How to Run Locally

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/AaryanAgrawal96/image-caption-generator-blip.git
cd image-caption-generator-blip

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the Streamlit app

streamlit run generate_caption.py

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👩‍💻 Author

Aaryan Agrawal
BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Jodhpur

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