The All-Seeing Project: Towards Panoptic Visual Recognition and Understanding of the Open World

Weiyun Wang, Min Shi, Qingyun Li, Wen Wang, Zhenhang Huang +9 more
2/12/2026

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Abstract

We present the All-Seeing (AS) project: a large-scale data and model for recognizing and understanding everything in the open world. Using a scalable data engine that incorporates human feedback and efficient models in the loop, we create a new dataset (AS-1B) with over 1 billion regions annotated with semantic tags, question-answering pairs, and detailed captions. It covers a wide range of 3.5 million common and rare concepts in the real world, and has 132.2 billion tokens that describe the concepts and their attributes. Leveraging this new dataset, we develop the All-Seeing model (ASM), a unified framework for panoptic visual recognition and understanding. The model is trained with open-ended language prompts and locations, which allows it to generalize to various vision and language tasks with remarkable zero-shot performance, including region-text retrieval, region recognition, captioning, and question-answering. We hope that this project can serve as a foundation for vision-language artificial general intelligence research. Models and the dataset shall be released at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/All-Seeing, and demo can be seen at https://huggingface.co/spaces/OpenGVLab/all-seeing.

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[ICLR 2024 & ECCV 2024] The All-Seeing Projects: Towards Panoptic Visual Recognition&Understanding and General Relation Comprehension of the Open World"

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@article{wang2026allseeing,
  title  = {The All-Seeing Project: Towards Panoptic Visual Recognition and Understanding of the Open World},
  author = {Weiyun Wang and Min Shi and Qingyun Li and Wen Wang and Zhenhang Huang and Linjie Xing and Zhe Chen and Hao Li and Xizhou Zhu and Zhiguo Cao and Yushi Chen and Tong Lu and Jifeng Dai and Y. Qiao},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2308.01907},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01907},
  journal = {ICLR 2023 2023}
}

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