Building a BLIP-2 Application: Vision Transformer and Language Model Integration

Learn to build a multimodal language learning model application that combines Vision Transformer (ViT) and Flan-T5 language model through a 23-minute tutorial. Explore how to create a system that can analyze images and generate narrative responses or answer specific questions about the visual content. Discover the implementation of BLIP-2 architecture, which uses Q-Former to bridge the gap between frozen image encoders and large language models. Follow along to develop a practical application where uploading an image, such as the Great Pyramid of Giza, enables the system to provide historically accurate responses through the combined power of visual analysis and language processing. Master the fundamentals of bootstrapping language-image pre-training while working with state-of-the-art vision-language transformer systems.