Embedding Methods for Image Search


Learn how to make machines understand images as people do. This free course covers everything you need to build state-of-the-art image retrieval systems; image search, text-to-image, object detection and more.
Introduction
Image retrieval has a long history, from term-matching manually annotated images in the 70s to today’s state-of-the-art deep learning-based approaches.
In this ebook, we will cover the state-of-the-art methods for image retrieval. We will start with a brief history of the field before diving in to the pillars of image retrieval: similarity search, content-based image retrieval, and multi-modal retrieval.
Image retrieval relies on two components; image embeddings, and vector search. We will cover how to produce information rich image embeddings with state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, including convolutional neural networks and transformers. Following this, we will learn how to pair our image embeddings with vector search to build powerful image retrieval systems.
This ebook is for anyone who wants to build amazing image-search applications using the latest methods in deep learning and information retrieval. No prior knowledge in either is necessary!
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Color Histograms
A look at one of the earliest content-based embedding methods.
Chapter 02Bag of Visual Words
Content-based information retrieval and classification with visual words.
Chapter 03Image-net
How ImageNet and AlexNet kickstarted the deep learning era of computer vision.
Chapter 04Convolutional Neural Nets
A visual tour of the long reigning champions of computer vision.
Chapter 05Vision Transformers
A deep dive into the unification of NLP and computer vision with the Vision Transformer (ViT).
Chapter 06CLIP Explained
Multi-modality and the future of computer vision with OpenAI's CLIP.
Chapter 07Zero-shot Image Classification with OpenAI's CLIP
A deep dive on OpenAI's CLIP for zero-shot image classification.
Chapter 08Object Localization and Detection with CLIP
How to apply CLIP to object detection in a zero-shot setting.
Traditional Image Embeddings Methods
An overview of the pre-DL methods for image embedding.
CNNs and Search
Extracting meaning with convolutional neural nets (CNNs).
Diffusion Explained
A deep dive on diffuser models
And more...
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