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Multimodal AI: Combining Vision, Language, and Audio

Build AI systems that process multiple data types. Applications in robotics, accessibility, and content creation.

Rottawhite Team12 min readNovember 30, 2024
Multimodal AIVision-LanguageAudio AI

Beyond Single Modality

Multimodal AI systems process and understand multiple types of data—text, images, audio, video—simultaneously.

Why Multimodal?

  • Richer understanding
  • More natural interaction
  • Complex task handling
  • Real-world applicability
  • Key Modalities

    Vision-Language

  • Image captioning
  • Visual Q&A
  • Image generation from text
  • Document understanding
  • Audio-Language

  • Speech recognition
  • Text-to-speech
  • Audio captioning
  • Voice assistants
  • Video Understanding

  • Action recognition
  • Video summarization
  • Temporal reasoning
  • Technical Approaches

    Early Fusion

    Combine inputs at feature level.

    Late Fusion

    Process separately, combine decisions.

    Cross-Attention

    Learn relationships between modalities.

    Unified Transformers

    Single architecture for all modalities.

    Leading Models

  • GPT-4V (Vision)
  • Gemini
  • LLaVA
  • CLIP
  • Whisper
  • Applications

    Accessibility

  • Image descriptions
  • Real-time captioning
  • Audio descriptions
  • Content Creation

  • Multimodal generation
  • Video editing
  • Creative tools
  • Robotics

  • Scene understanding
  • Task following
  • Human interaction
  • Implementation

  • Choose modalities
  • Select architecture
  • Prepare multimodal data
  • Train or fine-tune
  • Deploy and evaluate
  • Conclusion

    Multimodal AI enables more natural and capable AI systems.

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