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Preparing Multimodal Data: Vision, Audio, and NLP Pipelines

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Preparing Multimodal Data: Vision, Audio, and NLP Pipelines

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Preprocess images and video using normalization, color-space conversion, and motion extraction techniques.

  • Build audio feature extraction and augmentation pipelines using MFCCs and spectral transforms.

  • Fine-tune transformer models and construct text preprocessing pipelines for NLP applications.

  • Evaluate and debug multimodal AI models using automatic metrics and human-in-the-loop frameworks.

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March 2026

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There are 13 modules in this course

You will learn the foundational image preprocessing techniques essential for computer vision applications, including normalization methods and color-space conversions that ensure consistent model performance across diverse visual conditions.

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1 video2 readings2 assignments

You will learn motion analysis techniques essential for dynamic computer vision applications, implementing optical flow algorithms and frame differencing methods to extract temporal features from video sequences for applications like object tracking and action recognition.

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1 video2 readings2 assignments1 ungraded lab

You will learn systematic diagnostic techniques to identify and categorize common image quality issues in computer vision datasets

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2 videos1 reading2 assignments

You will implement specific algorithmic solutions to correct identified image quality issues and validate improvements using quantitative metrics.

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2 videos1 reading2 assignments1 ungraded lab

You will transform raw audio waveforms into numerical features for machine learning. You will apply spectral analysis techniques such as STFT and MFSCs. Then use cepstral analysis methods like MFCCs to extract richer representations.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

You will design and implement automated augmentation pipelines that apply noise injection, temporal modifications, and spectral transformations to improve model generalization in real-world acoustic environments.

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2 videos1 reading2 assignments1 ungraded lab

You will learn quantitative performance evaluation techniques for audio models, including calculating industry-standard metrics and identifying degradation patterns across different user cohorts.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab

You will learn systematic root cause analysis techniques for audio model failures, including qualitative error analysis and environmental factor correlation to implement effective remediation strategies.

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2 videos1 reading3 assignments

You will learn the process of adapting pre-trained BERT models for specialized domains using Hugging Face Transformers, achieving production-ready performance on domain-specific tasks.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

You will build comprehensive text preprocessing pipelines using spaCy that transform raw text into analysis-ready formats through systematic tokenization, normalization, and encoding workflows.

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2 videos1 reading2 assignments1 ungraded lab

You will understand the foundational principles of combining automated metrics with human-in-the-loop evaluation for comprehensive language model assessment.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

You will apply integrated evaluation strategies combining automated metrics with human judgment to conduct thorough language model assessments in realistic workplace scenarios.

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3 videos2 assignments1 ungraded lab

In this module, you will design and implement a multimodal AI system that integrates computer vision, audio processing, and natural language processing techniques. You will build a complete data pipeline including data preprocessing, feature extraction, multimodal fusion, model training, and performance evaluation. By the end of this module, you will be able to develop and assess a real-world AI application that combines multiple data types into a unified intelligent system.

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4 readings1 assignment

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