Multimodal search and retrieval system

Abstract

A Multimodal Search System (MSS) is designed to enable accurate search and retrieval across different modalities of data, including images, videos, and text. The MSS leverages multimodal and domain-specific models to extract and represent features and information from multimodal data, enabling seamless querying using text-based search queries. The MSS integrates multiple pipelines, including feature vector-based and tag-based approaches, to ensure robust and scalable search capabilities. The MSS addresses current multimodal-search challenges by leveraging a hybrid approach that combines multimodal embeddings, text embeddings, and semantic tagging to enable cross-modal searching. Additionally, for visual data, both tagging and embedding techniques are integrated within a single modality, ensuring a comprehensive and accurate representation. By assembling multiple retrieval strategies, the solution harnesses the strengths of each, resulting in a balanced and effective search system.