Is This Real Multi-Modal Learning? — ImageBind explained
Last Updated on November 8, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Boris Meinardus
Originally published on Towards AI.
Image to text or audio to text, that’s the multi-modal learning from last year! ImageBind [1] by Meta AI. Now that’s real multi-modal learning!
ImageBind combines multiple modalities into one shared embedding space. This means we can do cross-modal retrieval, i.e. we can input an audio sequence, e.g., some crackling fire, and retrieve an image of a crackling fire. Or we can even combine two different modalities, like an image of a bird, and the sound of waves, to retrieve an image of the same bird in the sea. And what about upgrading DALLE-2 to use audio as an input instead… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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