Pinecone - Multimodal RAG
Summary: This integration combines TwelveLabs’ Embed and Generate APIs with Pinecone’s hosted vector database to build RAG-based video Q&A applications. It transforms video content into rich embeddings that can be stored, indexed, and queried to extract text answers from unstructured video databases.
Description: The process of performing video-based question answering using TwelveLabs and Pinecone involves the following steps:
- Generate rich, contextual embeddings from your video content using the Embed API
- Store and index these embeddings in Pinecone’s vector database
- Perform semantic searches to find relevant video segments
- Generate natural language responses using Generate API
This integration also showcases the difference in developer experience between using the Generate API to generate text responses and a leading open-source model, LLaVA-NeXT-Video, allowing you to compare approaches and select the most suitable solution for your needs.
Step-by-step guide: Our blog post, Multimodal RAG: Chat with Videos Using TwelveLabs and Pinecone, guides you through the process of creating a RAG-based video Q&A application.
Colab Notebook: TwelveLabs_Pinecone_Chat_with_video.
Integration with TwelveLabs
This section describes how the application uses the TwelveLabs Python SDK with Pinecone to create a video Q&A application. The integration is comprised of the following main steps:
- Video embedding generation using the Embed API
- Vector database storage and indexing
- Similarity search for relevant video segments
- Natural language response generation using the Generate API
Video Embeddings
The generate_embedding
function generates embeddings for a video file:
For details on creating video embeddings, see the Create video embeddings page.
The ingest_data
function stores embeddings in Pinecone:
Video search
The search_video_segments
function creates text embeddings and performs similarity searches to find relevant video segments using the embeddings that have already been stored in Pinecone:
For details on creating text embeddings, see the Create text embeddings page.
Natural language responses
After retrieving relevant video segments, the application uses the Generate API to create natural language responses:
For details on generating open-ended texts from videos see the Open-ended text page.
Create a complete Q&A function
The application creates a complete Q&A function by combining search and response generation:
Next steps
After reading this page, you have the following options:
- Customize and use the example: Use the TwelveLabs_Pinecone_Chat_with_video notebook to understand how the integration works. You can make changes and add functionalities to suit your specific use case. Below are a few examples:
- Training a linear adapter on top of the embeddings to better fit your data.
- Re-ranking videos using Pegasus when clips from different videos are returned.
- Adding textual summary data for each video to the Pinecone entries to create a hybrid search system, enhancing accuracy using Pinecone’s Metadata capabilities.
- Explore further: Try the applications built by the community or our sample applications to get more insights into the TwelveLabs Video Understanding Platform’s diverse capabilities and learn more about integrating the platform into your applications.