# Multimodal Data Curation via Object Detection and Filter Ensembles. (arXiv:2401.12225v1 [cs.CV])


We propose an approach for curating multimodal data that we used for our entry
in the 2023 DataComp competition filtering track. Our technique combines object
detection and weak supervision-based ensembling. In the first of two steps in
our approach, we employ an out-of-the-box zero-shot object detection model to
extract granular information and produce a variety of filter designs. In the
second step, we employ weak supervision to ensemble filtering rules. This
approach results in a 4% performance improvement when compared to the best-
performing baseline, producing the top-ranking position in the small scale track
at the time of writing. Furthermore, in

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