Release Notes: Visual Search and QA#

Version 2025.2.0#

Helm Chart Version: 1.0.0 Release Date: December 10, 2025

Features:

  • Visual Search:

    • Search images and videos using natural language queries.

  • Question Answering:

    • Ask questions about selected media and receive context-aware answers.

  • Microservices Architecture:

    • Includes data preparation, retriever, multimodal embedding, VLM serving, and a Streamlit-based web UI.

Hardware Used for Validation:

  • Intel® Core™ processors (13th Gen, i7 recommended)

  • Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics (Intel® Arc™ A770 recommended)