A hands-on online training on using artificial intelligence for image search will be jointly organized by AI Factory Austria AI:AT and Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) on 10 June 2026.
This training offers a deeper understanding of how and why AI systems make decisions, and how they can connect images and text in powerful new ways. Participants will get to know CLIP (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-Training), how to prepare their data, and build a smart image search that "gets" both images and text.
Participants will be guided step by step through building a similarity pipeline, learning how to rank images based on how well they match a given text prompt. They will dive into practical evaluation techniques, including precision and recall, to understand how well their system actually performs.
Whether they are building search systems, recommendation engines, or multimodal AI applications, this session will give the participants practical skills and critical insight needed to get started with confidence. They will also explore how to interpret results, spot common pitfalls, and recognize the real-world limitations of pre-trained models.
