Generate embeddings for Images, Videos and Text

This code sample shows how to use the multimodal model to generate embeddings for image, text and video data.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Get multimodal embeddings
• Multimodal embeddings API

Code sample

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Vertex AI quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vertex AI Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vertex AI, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	aiplatform "cloud.google.com/go/aiplatform/apiv1beta1"
	aiplatformpb "cloud.google.com/go/aiplatform/apiv1beta1/aiplatformpb"
	"google.golang.org/api/option"
	"google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/protojson"
	"google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/structpb"
)

// generateForImageTextAndVideo shows how to use the multimodal model to generate embeddings for
// image, text and video data.
func generateForImageTextAndVideo(w io.Writer, project, location string) error {
	// location = "us-central1"

	// The default context timeout may be not enough to process a video input.
	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 15*time.Second)
	defer cancel()

	apiEndpoint := fmt.Sprintf("%s-aiplatform.googleapis.com:443", location)
	client, err := aiplatform.NewPredictionClient(ctx, option.WithEndpoint(apiEndpoint))
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to construct API client: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	model := "multimodalembedding@001"
	endpoint := fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s/publishers/google/models/%s", project, location, model)

	// This is the input to the model's prediction call. For schema, see:
	// https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/model-reference/multimodal-embeddings-api#request_body
	instance, err := structpb.NewValue(map[string]any{
		"text": "Domestic cats in natural conditions",
		"image": map[string]any{
			// Image and video inputs can be provided either as a Google Cloud Storage URI or as
			// base64-encoded bytes using the "bytesBase64Encoded" field.
			"gcsUri": "gs://cloud-samples-data/generative-ai/image/320px-Felis_catus-cat_on_snow.jpg",
		},
		"video": map[string]any{
			"gcsUri": "gs://cloud-samples-data/video/cat.mp4",
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to construct request payload: %w", err)
	}

	req := &aiplatformpb.PredictRequest{
		Endpoint: endpoint,
		// The model supports only 1 instance per request.
		Instances: []*structpb.Value{instance},
	}

	resp, err := client.Predict(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to generate embeddings: %w", err)
	}

	instanceEmbeddingsJson, err := protojson.Marshal(resp.GetPredictions()[0])
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to convert protobuf value to JSON: %w", err)
	}
	// For response schema, see:
	// https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/model-reference/multimodal-embeddings-api#response-body
	var instanceEmbeddings struct {
		ImageEmbeddings []float32 `json:"imageEmbedding"`
		TextEmbeddings  []float32 `json:"textEmbedding"`
		VideoEmbeddings []struct {
			Embedding      []float32 `json:"embedding"`
			StartOffsetSec float64   `json:"startOffsetSec"`
			EndOffsetSec   float64   `json:"endOffsetSec"`
		} `json:"videoEmbeddings"`
	}
	if err := json.Unmarshal(instanceEmbeddingsJson, &instanceEmbeddings); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to unmarshal JSON: %w", err)
	}

	imageEmbedding := instanceEmbeddings.ImageEmbeddings
	textEmbedding := instanceEmbeddings.TextEmbeddings
	// Get the embedding for our single video segment (`.videoEmbeddings` object has one entry per
	// each processed segment).
	videoEmbedding := instanceEmbeddings.VideoEmbeddings[0].Embedding

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Image embedding (length=%d): %v\n", len(imageEmbedding), imageEmbedding)
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Text embedding (length=%d): %v\n", len(textEmbedding), textEmbedding)
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Video embedding (length=%d): %v\n", len(videoEmbedding), videoEmbedding)
	// Example response:
	// Image embedding (length=1408): [-0.01558477 0.0258355 0.016342038 ... ]
	// Text embedding (length=1408): [-0.005894961 0.008349559 0.015355394 ... ]
	// Video embedding (length=1408): [-0.018867437 0.013997682 0.0012682161 ... ]

	return nil
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Vertex AI quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vertex AI Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vertex AI, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import vertexai

from vertexai.vision_models import Image, MultiModalEmbeddingModel, Video
from vertexai.vision_models import VideoSegmentConfig

# TODO(developer): Update & uncomment line below
# PROJECT_ID = "your-project-id"
vertexai.init(project=PROJECT_ID, location="us-central1")

model = MultiModalEmbeddingModel.from_pretrained("multimodalembedding@001")

image = Image.load_from_file(
    "gs://cloud-samples-data/vertex-ai/llm/prompts/landmark1.png"
)
video = Video.load_from_file(
    "gs://cloud-samples-data/vertex-ai-vision/highway_vehicles.mp4"
)

embeddings = model.get_embeddings(
    image=image,
    video=video,
    video_segment_config=VideoSegmentConfig(end_offset_sec=1),
    contextual_text="Cars on Highway",
)

print(f"Image Embedding: {embeddings.image_embedding}")

# Video Embeddings are segmented based on the video_segment_config.
print("Video Embeddings:")
for video_embedding in embeddings.video_embeddings:
    print(
        f"Video Segment: {video_embedding.start_offset_sec} - {video_embedding.end_offset_sec}"
    )
    print(f"Embedding: {video_embedding.embedding}")

print(f"Text Embedding: {embeddings.text_embedding}")
# Example response:
# Image Embedding: [-0.0123144267, 0.0727186054, 0.000201397663, ...]
# Video Embeddings:
# Video Segment: 0.0 - 1.0
# Embedding: [-0.0206376351, 0.0345234685, ...]
# Text Embedding: [-0.0207006838, -0.00251058186, ...]

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