Open Source Mac Computer Vision Libraries

Blazeface is a lightweight, high-performance face detection model designed for mobile and embedded devices, developed by TensorFlow. It is optimized for real-time face detection tasks and runs efficiently on mobile CPUs, ensuring minimal latency and power consumption. Blazeface is based on a fast architecture and uses deep learning techniques to detect faces with high accuracy, even in challenging conditions. It supports multiple face detection in varying lighting and poses, and is designed to work in real-world applications like mobile apps, robotics, and other resource-constrained environments.

MetaCLIP is a research codebase that extends the CLIP framework into a meta-learning / continual learning regime, aiming to adapt CLIP-style models to new tasks or domains efficiently. The goal is to preserve CLIP’s strong zero-shot transfer capability while enabling fast adaptation to domain shifts or novel class sets with minimal data and without catastrophic forgetting. The repository provides training logic, adaptation strategies (e.g. prompt tuning, adapter modules), and evaluation across base and target domains to measure how well the model retains its general knowledge while specializing as needed. It includes utilities to fine-tune vision-language embeddings, compute prompt or adapter updates, and benchmark across transfer and retention metrics. MetaCLIP is especially suited for real-world settings where a model must continuously incorporate new visual categories or domains over time.

Phi-3-Vision-MLX is an Apple MLX (machine learning on Apple silicon) implementation of Phi-3 Vision, a lightweight multi-modal model designed for vision and language tasks. It focuses on running vision-language AI efficiently on Apple hardware like M1 and M2 chips.