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+# VideoChat
+
+VideoChat is a multifunctional video question answering tool that combines the functions of Action Recognition, Visual Captioning and ChatGPT. Our solution generates dense, descriptive captions for any object and action in a video, offering a range of language styles to suit different user preferences. It supports users to have conversations in different lengths, emotions, authenticity of language.
+- Video-Text Generation
+- Chat about uploaded video
+- Interactive demo
+
+# :fire: Updates
+
+- **2023/04/19**: Code Release
+
+# :speech_balloon: Example
+
+![images](assert/dancing.png)
+![images](assert/dancing2.png)
+
+# :running: Usage
+
+```shell
+# We recommend using conda to manage the environment and use python3.8.16
+conda create -n chatvideo python=3.8.16
+conda activate chatvideo
+
+# Clone the repository:
+git clone https://github.com/OpenGVLab/Ask-Anything.git
+cd ask-anything/video_chat
+
+# Install dependencies:
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0/en_core_web_sm-3.0.0.tar.gz
+python -m pip install 'git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git'
+
+# Download the checkpoints
+wget https://huggingface.co/spaces/xinyu1205/Tag2Text/resolve/main/tag2text_swin_14m.pth ./pretrained_models/tag2text_swin_14m.pth
+wget https://datarelease.blob.core.windows.net/grit/models/grit_b_densecap_objectdet.pth ./pretrained_models/grit_b_densecap_objectdet.pth
+git clone https://huggingface.co/mrm8488/flan-t5-large-finetuned-openai-summarize_from_feedback ./pretrained_models/flan-t5-large-finetuned-openai-summarize_from_feedback
+
+# Configure the necessary ChatGPT APIs
+export OPENAI_API_KEY={Your_Private_Openai_Key}
+
+# Run the VideoChat gradio demo.
+python app.py
+```
+
+# Acknowledgement
+
+The project is based on [InternVideo](https://github.com/OpenGVLab/InternVideo), [Tag2Text](https://github.com/xinyu1205/Tag2Text), [GRiT](https://github.com/JialianW/GRiT), [mrm8488](https://huggingface.co/mrm8488/flan-t5-large-finetuned-openai-summarize_from_feedback) and [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt). Thanks for the authors for their efforts.
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