Table of Contents Preparing the BLIP Backend for Deployment with Redis Caching and FastAPI Introduction What We’re Building in This Lesson Why Redis Caching Matters for Inference What Is Caching? What Is Redis? Configuring Your Development Environment Running a Local…

Table of Contents Meet BLIP: The Vision-Language Model Powering Image Captioning What Is Image Captioning and Why Is It Challenging? Why It’s Challenging Why Traditional Vision Tasks Aren’t Enough Configuring Your Development Environment A Brief History of Image Captioning Models…

Table of Contents Synthetic Data Generation Using the BLIP and PaliGemma Models Why VLM-as-Judge and Synthetic VQA Configuring Your Development Environment Set Up and Imports Download Images Locally Inference with the Salesforce BLIP Model Convert JSON File to the Hugging…

Table of Contents Generating Video Highlights Using the SmolVLM2 Model Configuring Your Development Environment Setup and Imports Setup Logger Get Video Duration in Seconds Load Model and Processor Analyze Video Content Determine Highlights Process Video Segment Concatenating Video Scenes into…

Table of Contents SmolVLM to SmolVLM2: Compact Models for Multi-Image VQA SmolVLM 1: A Compact Yet Capable Vision-Language Model What Is SmolVLM? Why SmolVLM? The Three Variants of SmolVLM Architecture Overview Vision Encoder: SigLIP Variants Pixel Shuffle (Space-to-Depth) for Image…

Table of Contents AI for Healthcare: Fine-Tuning Google’s PaliGemma 2 for Brain Tumor Detection Configuring Your Development Environment Setup and Imports Load the Brain Tumor Dataset Format Dataset to PaliGemma Format Display Train Image and Label COCO Format BBox to…

Table of Contents Object Detection in Gaming: Fine-Tuning Google’s PaliGemma 2 for Valorant Configuring Your Development Environment Setup and Imports Load the Valorant Dataset Format Dataset to PaliGemma Format Display Train Image and Label COCO Format BBox to XYXY Format…

Table of Contents Object Detection with the PaliGemma 2 Model Introduction How Object Detection Works in PaliGemma Models Converting Normalized Coordinates to Pixel Values Configuring Your Development Environment Setup and Imports Load PaliGemma 2 Model Parse Multiple Locations Draw Multiple…

Table of Contents Vision-Language Model: PaliGemma for Image Description Generator and More Configuring Your Development Environment Setup and Imports Loading the PaliGemma Model and Processor Visual Question Answering Document Understanding Image Caption and Description Generator Video Caption and Description Generator…