Use CLIP Zero-Shot Classification with the Roboflow Inference Server

The latest version of the Roboflow Inference Server introduces an API that allows users to interface with the Roboflow API and their trained models, facilitating deployment target changes without code modification. It supports foundational models like OpenAI’s CLIP, enabling zero-shot image classification to categorize images without training, which can be useful for applications such as content moderation, image captioning, and similarity searches. The guide explains how to use the CLIP image comparison endpoint on the Inference Server for image classification, demonstrating with example code how to classify images and interpret the results. The Inference Server can run on various devices and provides endpoints for calculating text and image embeddings, as well as comparing text prompts with images. This functionality allows users to make informed decisions about image handling, such as storage, server routing, or post-processing needs.