#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Tier-2 vision captioner backed by llama.cpp (GGUF) instead of PyTorch/transformers. Drop-in replacement for tools/vision_caption.py: SAME manifest/output contract, so the Java HighlightVisionDirector is unchanged — only the configured script path differs. Uses a stronger local VLM (e.g. Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct) through llama.cpp, which runs on this Intel x86 CPU via AVX SIMD and sidesteps the torch==2.2.2 / transformers 4.x version trap entirely. Manifest JSON: [{"id": "...", "image": "/abs/path.jpg", "question": "..."}] Output JSON: [{"id": "...", "answer": "..."}] Fully offline. Two backends, selected by env: SERVER mode (fast — model loaded ONCE): set LLAMACPP_SERVER_BIN to the `llama-server` binary. CLI mode (simple — reloads per frame): set LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN to the `llama-mtmd-cli` binary. (server mode wins if both are set.) LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL path to the VLM GGUF weights, e.g. Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf (required) LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ path to the matching multimodal projector GGUF (mmproj-*.gguf) (required) LLAMACPP_VLM_NTOKENS max tokens to generate per answer (optional, default 64) LLAMACPP_SERVER_PORT loopback port for server mode (optional, default 8123) CPU is forced (`-ngl 0 --no-mmproj-offload`): this machine's integrated GPU times out on the vision encoder (Metal command-buffer timeout). Server mode keeps the model resident and POSTs base64 frames to the OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint on 127.0.0.1 — far faster than reloading per frame. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import base64 import json import os import re import subprocess import sys import time import urllib.error import urllib.request def _clean(text: str) -> str: if not text: return "" text = text.replace("\x1b[0m", "") # CLI mode echoes the chat-templated conversation; take the LAST assistant turn. (Server mode returns # clean content already, in which case there is no 'assistant' marker and the whole string is kept.) idx = text.rfind("assistant") if idx >= 0: text = text[idx + len("assistant"):] text = re.sub(r"<\|[^>]*\|>", " ", text).replace("[end of text]", " ") lines = [ln.strip() for ln in text.splitlines() if ln.strip()] lines = [ln for ln in lines if not re.match(r"^(llama_|main:|mtmd_|clip_|ggml_|build:|load|encoding|decoding|\d[\d.:]*\s)", ln, re.IGNORECASE)] return " ".join(lines).strip() # --- CLI mode (per-frame reload) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- def _caption_cli(binary: str, model: str, mmproj: str, image: str, question: str, ntokens: int) -> str: command = [ binary, "-m", model, "--mmproj", mmproj, "--image", image, "-p", question, "--temp", "0", "-n", str(ntokens), "-t", "4", "-ngl", "0", "--no-mmproj-offload", ] proc = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=900) if proc.returncode != 0: sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp(cli): failed (%s): %s\n" % (proc.returncode, proc.stderr[-500:])) return "" return _clean(proc.stdout) # --- SERVER mode (model loaded once) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- def _start_server(binary: str, model: str, mmproj: str, port: int): command = [ binary, "-m", model, "--mmproj", mmproj, "--host", "127.0.0.1", "--port", str(port), "-ngl", "0", "--no-mmproj-offload", "-t", "4", "-c", "4096", ] proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL) # Wait for readiness (model load on CPU can take a while). deadline = time.time() + 300 while time.time() < deadline: if proc.poll() is not None: raise RuntimeError("llama-server exited during startup (code %s)" % proc.returncode) try: with urllib.request.urlopen("http://127.0.0.1:%d/health" % port, timeout=3) as resp: if resp.status == 200: return proc except Exception: time.sleep(2) proc.terminate() raise RuntimeError("llama-server did not become healthy within timeout") def _caption_server(port: int, image: str, question: str, ntokens: int) -> str: with open(image, "rb") as fh: b64 = base64.b64encode(fh.read()).decode("ascii") payload = { "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "text", "text": question}, {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "data:image/jpeg;base64," + b64}}, ]}], "temperature": 0, "max_tokens": ntokens, } req = urllib.request.Request( "http://127.0.0.1:%d/v1/chat/completions" % port, data=json.dumps(payload).encode("utf-8"), headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}, ) with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=900) as resp: body = json.loads(resp.read().decode("utf-8")) return _clean(body["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]) def main() -> int: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Local VLM frame captioner (llama.cpp / GGUF)") parser.add_argument("--manifest", required=True) parser.add_argument("--output", required=True) args = parser.parse_args() model = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL", "") mmproj = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ", "") ntokens = int(os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_VLM_NTOKENS", "64")) server_bin = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_SERVER_BIN", "") cli_bin = os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN", "") port = int(os.environ.get("LLAMACPP_SERVER_PORT", "8123")) for name, val in (("LLAMACPP_VLM_MODEL", model), ("LLAMACPP_VLM_MMPROJ", mmproj)): if not val or not os.path.exists(val): sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: missing/invalid %s\n" % name) return 2 use_server = bool(server_bin and os.path.exists(server_bin)) if not use_server and not (cli_bin and os.path.exists(cli_bin)): sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: set LLAMACPP_SERVER_BIN or LLAMACPP_MTMD_BIN to a real path\n") return 2 with open(args.manifest, "r", encoding="utf-8") as handle: items = json.load(handle) server = None results = [] try: if use_server: server = _start_server(server_bin, model, mmproj, port) for item in items: answer = "" try: if use_server: answer = _caption_server(port, item["image"], item["question"], ntokens) else: answer = _caption_cli(cli_bin, model, mmproj, item["image"], item["question"], ntokens) except Exception as exc: # a single bad frame must never fail the batch sys.stderr.write("vision_caption_llamacpp: frame %s failed: %s\n" % (item.get("id"), exc)) results.append({"id": item.get("id"), "answer": answer}) finally: if server is not None: server.terminate() try: server.wait(timeout=10) except Exception: server.kill() os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(args.output)), exist_ok=True) with open(args.output, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle: json.dump(results, handle, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": raise SystemExit(main())