Daniel Madalitso Phiri

Vision for Websites: Training Your Frontend to See

Build web apps that see. Learn how to implement powerful visual search with vector embeddings in just a few lines of code.

Vision for Websites: Training Your Frontend to See
#1about 1 minute

Defining vision as the ability to deduce and understand

The concept of vision for websites is redefined from simply seeing to the ability to deduce, understand, and act on information.

#2about 4 minutes

Demo of a multimodal e-commerce search application

A live demonstration showcases an e-commerce store where users can search for products using both text queries and by uploading images.

#3about 2 minutes

What is multimodality in artificial intelligence?

Multimodality enables search queries to use multiple media types like text, images, and audio to capture more context and improve user interaction.

#4about 2 minutes

Why multimodal AI creates richer user experiences

Multimodal interfaces provide more natural and context-aware interactions, moving beyond simple keyword searches to a more intuitive experience.

#5about 4 minutes

Differentiating generative AI from embedding models

Embedding models encapsulate information into numerical representations (vectors), unlike generative models which create new data.

#6about 4 minutes

How vector search works by measuring distance

Vector search operates by converting a query into an embedding and finding the closest, most semantically similar items in a multidimensional space.

#7about 2 minutes

Creating a unified space for multimodal search

Different data types like text, images, and audio are processed by specific encoders and plotted into a single, unified vector space for cross-modal queries.

#8about 9 minutes

Implementing text-based image search with Weaviate

A code walkthrough demonstrates how to build a text-to-image search feature using a Next.js frontend and a Weaviate backend with a `nearText` query.

#9about 4 minutes

Implementing visual search with an image query

The code for an image-to-image search is explained, showing how a base64 image is sent to the backend to perform a `nearImage` vector search.

#10about 2 minutes

Expanding vision to other creative applications

Beyond e-commerce, multimodal vision can be applied to creative use cases like movie recommenders, educational tools, and map navigation.

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