Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
IDEA Research (International Digital Economy Academy)
vision

Grounding DINO

IDEA Research open-set detector that finds objects described by text, used for auto-labelling and with SAM for segmentation.

IDEA Research (International Digital Economy Academy)IDEA Research (International Digital Economy Academy)China
Framework diagram of Grounding DINO with feature enhancer, language-guided query selection and cross-modality decoder, from the model card.
Levelmodel
Classvision
Parameters232.81M
Contextnot in the notes
Released9 Mar 2023
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

R&D Topics

Open-vocabulary object detection and groundingexemplar

Identity

Developer
IDEA Research (International Digital Economy Academy)
Family
not in the notes
Released
9 Mar 2023 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
25 Sep 2023
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer
Total parameters
232.81M sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
Tiny and Base; NVIDIA TAO Grounding DINO and Mask Grounding DINO builds.
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image, text
Output
labels and boxes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download, API
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2303.05499 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05499
  2. huggingface.co/IDEA-Research/grounding-dino-base https://huggingface.co/IDEA-Research/grounding-dino-base
  3. catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/teams/tao/models/grounding_dino https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/teams/tao/models/grounding_dino
  4. huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=zero-shot-object-dete... https://huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=zero-shot-object-detection&sort=downloads&limit=50
  5. replicate.com/adirik/grounding-dino https://replicate.com/adirik/grounding-dino
  6. docs.roboflow.com/models/supported-models/grounding-dino.md https://docs.roboflow.com/models/supported-models/grounding-dino.md

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Grounding DINO", https://aurion.semai.id/models/idea-research-grounding-dino/, records of October 2026.