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Hacking on LLMs, curating multimodal datasets, and writing a book about RAG.

Harpreet Sahota 🥑

i've literally been waiting for years to have an OPEN SOURCE model like qwen3-vl-embedding

i tested its multimodal retrieval capabilities on a corpus of 412 short video clips and the results literally blew my mind

here are the queries i tested:

1. a cartoon guy drinks merlot wine

i like this query because we see how it can retrieve based on semantics (a cartoon), text (the label merlot), and temporal action in the video (the cartoon guy drinks the wine mid-way through the video)

2. garfield runs out of the door

semantics are awesome here, the model knows i'm talking about the cartoon character...

3. a woman in a blue dress sleeping on a red bench

the skeptic in you might think that it's retrieving just based on the red color block in the 2/3 of the video...but notice the specific part of the query "a woman in a blue dress..." and this is only shown in 3s out of the full 10s

this is such a huge release 

and it's gonna open up SO much more for multimodal video retrieval this year

on my wishlist is natural language search of pcd datasets, who gonna ship that?

you can hack around with the model using the resources below

check out the docs: here: https://lnkd.in/gh7yfBNP

and the quickstart nbhere:  https://lnkd.in/gbinsx7p

🤖 Hacker-in-Residence @ Voxel51| 👨🏽‍💻 AI/ML Engineer | 👷🏽‍♀️ Technical Developer Advocate | Learn. Do. Write. Teach. Repeat.

for those who missed it, or were there in-person and know the trouble i was facing 😆, my ODSC webinar is now live on youtube!

in this session i discuss visual ai techniques for automotive damage detection. 

i used the cardd dataset, which is a public dataset built specifically for vehicle damage analysis and demonstrated how fiftyone helps you explore, visualize, and build models to detect dents, scratches, cracks, glass shatter, tire flats, and broken lamps.

i feel like its a super practical workshop with some insightful workflows for visual AI in automotive settings, but as the creator i might be biased.

only one way to find out for yourself, watch the webinar!

https://lnkd.in/ewfz5vZD

Open video: Mastering Visual AI with Vision-Language Models & Advanced Evaluation Techniques by Harpreet Sahota on youtube.com

Mastering Visual AI with Vision-Language Models & Advanced Evaluation Techniques by Harpreet Sahota

sometimes i look back at the shit i get done and i genuinely impress myself

how teams really build Visual AI in the wild? what's the he messy reality?  

i don't know...and maybe its because nobody’s asking practitioners and compiling their answers so we can find out the landscape actually looks like. 

so, we at Voxel51 are kickin off the...

wait for it...

 State of Visual AI survey...vey...vey

for those out ther building visual AI systems i want your hot takes

what’s the hardest part about making visual ai a reality? 

let us know in this survey

it'll take you 30 minutes and is a much better use of time than baby sitting your runs and staring at your loss curves

i can't offer much beyond my heartiest thanks, but you will get early access to the full report with benchmarks, common pain points, and where you stand within the landscape. 

here's a link: https://lnkd.in/gnsADACy

MedGemma 1.5 supports detection, but for best results, you'll need to fine-tune. 

there's a kaggle competition using the model, i created a starter notebook to give you a jump start on how to fine-tune it for detection

checkout the starter notebook and additonal resources 👇🏼

cc Omar Sanseviero Megan Risdal Logan Kilpatrick

looking forward to the next meetup in boston!

Join our in-person meetup at the Microsoft Research Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts on Feb 18 to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gi4kpSMB

Talks will include:

• SNAP: Towards Segmenting Anything in Any Point Cloud - Hanhui Wang at Northeastern University

• Culturally Adaptive AI - Anku R. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Data Foundations for Vision-Language-Action Models - Harpreet Sahota 🥑 at Voxel51

• Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models - Sharut G. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Neural Radiance Fields for Image Verification - Sage Simhon at Pasteur Labs & ISI

#computervision #ai #artificialintelligence #machinevision #machinelearning #datascience

Syed Abdul Sami Rizvi, Matthew Ebisu and 118 other attendees

View event: Feb 18 - Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

Feb 18 - Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

in the asu area and wanna get started with open source contributions? then don't miss this hack

On March 21, 2026, we’re hosting Agents World: Visual AI Hackathon @Arizona State University, together with Pavan Turaga 🚀 

This is a hands-on day: meet people, build with AI, eat pizza, and leave with something you created after a short workshop and a full day of hacking. 
You’ll work with the FiftyOne ecosystem and real models used in practice, like Qwen, Gemini Vision, Sharp, and more. 

If you’re an ASU student who wants to build, learn by doing, and work with real Visual AI tools, this is for you.

Registration is open:
https://lnkd.in/gBCHW5Fg

Hope to see you at ASU. I’ll be there with the amazing Voxel51 team:  Sid Mehta, Ritchie Martori, Jimmy Guerrero ! 🙌

Inspired by the amazing Hugging Face’s 2025 AI Timeline, we created one for the Fiftyone community. The FiftyOne Community Development Timeline highlights more than 131 contributions from 2025, including datasets, models, plugins, and integrations.

You can filter by type or modality and jump straight to each integration.
https://lnkd.in/ev2kpCGN

Big thanks to the entire Voxel51 community for building all of this together.
Harpreet Sahota 🥑, Daniel Gural, Paula Ramos, PhD, Jimmy Guerrero, Derek Van de Streek, Nicholas Lotz 🚀

Gonna be a great series of talks, lots of technical depth!

Chief Community Officer @ Voxel51 | Startup Advisor

Join us on Feb 18 for the Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup! Pre-registration is mandatory to clear building security - https://lnkd.in/gHtBuH49

Talks will include:

* SNAP: Towards Segmenting Anything in Any Point Cloud - Hanhui Wang at Northeastern University

* Culturally Adaptive AI - Anku R. at MIT

* Data Foundations for Vision-Language-Action Models - Harpreet Sahota 🥑 at Voxel51

* Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models - Sharut G. at MIT

* Neural Radiance Fields for Image Verification - Sage Simhon at Pasteur Labs & ISI

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Want to build better computer vision models? FiftyOne is an open source toolkit from Voxel51 (our Meetup sponsor) that helps you curate datasets, evaluate model performance, visualize embeddings, catch annotation errors, and eliminate duplicate images—all in one place.

“pip install fiftyone” is all it takes to get started - https://docs.voxel51.com/

#computervision #ai #artificialintelligence #machinevision
#machinelearning #datascience #physicalai

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* Pioneering Ansira’s AI Vision: Spearheading the AI transformation journey by leading a dedicated task force to strategically embed AI across the organization, unlocking new possibilities for efficiency, creativity, and growth.

* Empowering an AI-Driven Workforce: Champion the development of a forward-thinking AI upskilling program, creating opportunities for Ansira’s knowledge workers to thrive in an AI-first world. By fostering a culture of continuous learning, we’re building an agile, AI-enabled team ready to meet tomorrow’s challenges, today. 

* Discovering and Scaling AI Innovation: Partner with departments to identify transformative AI opportunities that drive impact, enhance productivity, and elevate Ansira’s services. Through collaborative projects and pilot programs, we explore the frontiers of AI to reshape processes and elevate client value.

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AI Transformation Project Manager

- AI Compliance Engine: Helped architect and develop a game-changing system that forms the protective core of all our AI solutions. Leveraging AI/ML, Generative AI, and computer vision to shield Ansira and our clients from the intricate web of regulatory and branding complexities.

- Compliance-Driven AI Ecosystem Leader:

-- AI Compliance Engine: Spearheading development of our central safeguard, proactively detecting 
DISCUS violations, nuanced language issues, and superfluous claims across all AI-powered offerings.

-- Palette's AI Integrations: Infusing cutting-edge AI & Compliance Engine into our design platform, enabling scalable creation of on-brand, compliant marketing materials.

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AI Engineer, Product Manager Consultant 

Self-employed

AI Product Management Consultant

BrandMuscle

Acquired by Ansira in July 2024!

- Generative AI & Machine Learning
-- Palette Design Suite, AI Compliance Engine, Tastebuds (Cocktail creation)
-- AI Services Content Creation with brand voice

Product Manager 

Associate Product Manager

Product Owner - Support

The Upbeat K9

• Built and maintained The Upbeat K9 company website
(https://theupbeatk9.com).
• Assisted in management of The Upbeat K9 Social Media profiles
(Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter).
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lead generation campaigns for newly opened franchise locations.
• Maintained webserver hosting The Upbeat K9 website.
• Administrator of G. Cloud (Google Apps for Business) for The Upbeat K9, LLC Headquarters & franchise locations.

Social Media Consultant & IT Consultant

Dueling Dogs

• Product Owner for Scrum team developing web application
which handles event registrations, processes Rankings, event
results, interfacing with WordPress website, etc.
• Built and maintained Dueling Dogs website using WordPress
(https://duelingdogs.net).
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Product Owner & Social Media Strategist

DockDogs

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event results, etc. Worked with a team of overseas developers.
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56,000+.
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(https://dockdogs.com).
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Operating Procedures and Policies manual built using MkDocs.

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Social Media Strategist/Partner

KIWI Communications LLC

Self-employed freelance work building websites using WordPress,
Joomla, and Magento. Additionally, provided some social media services
and SEO optimization for small businesses throughout Ohio.

Founder/Partner

Digital Media Research Group [dmrg]

* Undergraduate, Graduate, &amp; Doctoral level research and development of new and emerging technologies.
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* Flash Media Server/Red5 Programming &amp; Administration 
* Apple xServe &amp; xServe RAID administrator 
** Managed 650+ user accounts, PHP, MySql, Webmin, command line administration, VNC server, Apache Web Server, etc.
** Moodle Administration
* Actionscript 2.0 Programming
* Multiple discipline workplace with numerous disciplines explored and evaluated in each project.
* Adaptive Hypermedia Learning
* Mobile Devices Research &amp; Development
** Educational Gaming
* eLearning Development
** Moodle Administration
Communications tools &amp; learning objects

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