TII Releases Falcon Perception for Open-Vocabulary Visual Grounding

TLDR

Technology Innovation Institute has released Falcon Perception, a 0.6B-parameter early-fusion Transformer for open-vocabulary grounding and segmentation, achieving 68.0 Macro-F1 on the SA-Co benchmark versus 62.3 for SAM 3.

TII also released Falcon OCR, a 0.3B-parameter extension achieving 80.3% on the olmOCR benchmark. Both models are available on Hugging Face under permissive licensing.

Key Takeaways

• Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon Perception, a 0
• 6B-parameter model achieving 68
• 0 Macro-F1 on visual grounding benchmarks with unified early-fusion architecture