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Vision & Audio AI Systems Specialization

Coursera

Vision & Audio AI Systems Specialization

Build Multimodal AI for Vision and Audio. Design, debug, and deploy AI systems that unify visual and audio data processing.

Hurix Digital

Instructor: Hurix Digital

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Advanced level

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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design preprocessing pipelines for image, video, and audio data that transform raw inputs into model-ready features.

  • Implement cross-modal retrieval systems and fusion algorithms that unify visual and audio information effectively.

  • Debug and optimize multimodal AI systems through systematic error analysis and performance tuning techniques.

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Specialization - 10 course series

What you'll learn

  • Multimodal architecture needs encoder-fusion-decoder pipelines balancing computational efficiency with cross-modal understanding capabilities.

  • Transfer learning transforms AI by enabling rapid adaptation of pre-trained knowledge to new domains with minimal data and training requirements.

  • Fine-tuning balances knowledge preservation and task adaptation through careful hyperparameter selection and strategic layer freezing techniques.

  • Production multimodal systems require systematic optimization approaches considering both model performance and computational resource constraints.

What you'll learn

  • Training and validation metric divergence patterns are reliable indicators of overfitting that require early intervention to avoid model degradation.

  • Gradient magnitude tracking during backpropagation reveals critical stability issues that can be systematically diagnosed and corrected.

  • Proactive diagnostic workflows using visualization tools like TensorBoard enable timely interventions that save significant computational resources

  • Successful model development depends on establishing continuous monitoring practices that catch training failures before they become costly problems.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Analysis
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Applied Machine Learning

What you'll learn

  • Systematic error analysis uncovers specific failure modes and root causes that guide focused model improvements.

  • Confusion matrices and error categories reveal class-level model strengths and weaknesses.

  • Visualizing predictions with ground truth adds qualitative insight to complement numeric metrics.

  • Linking errors to data traits enables targeted data collection and model tuning for stronger robustness.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Computer Vision
Category: Statistical Reporting
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Image Analysis
Category: Analysis
Category: Debugging
Category: Quality Assurance
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Failure Mode And Effects Analysis
Category: Root Cause Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Cross-modal retrieval aligns vector spaces to bridge semantic gaps between text, images, and other data types.

  • ANN tools like FAISS enable fast similarity search across millions of embeddings with production-scale performance.

  • Attention mechanisms fuse visual and textual features by learning contextual relationships across multiple representations.

  • Multimodal systems balance accuracy, speed, and memory through careful index choice and parameter tuning.

What you'll learn

  • Systematic complexity analysis with Big O notation for time and space is fundamental to predicting performance in scalable AI system design.

  • Trade-off evaluation between speed and memory usage requires formal assessment methodologies rather than intuitive guessing.

  • Resource optimization decisions must be grounded in empirical profiling data combined with theoretical complexity analysis.

  • Algorithm selection for deployment environments requires matching complexity profiles to specific hardware constraints and performance requirements.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Algorithms
Category: Scalability
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Performance Testing
Category: Resource Utilization

What you'll learn

  • Image preprocessing with normalization and color-space conversion ensures stable training and consistent performance across visuals.

  • Motion features from optical flow and frame differencing help systems learn temporal dynamics for tracking and action tasks.

  • Strong preprocessing improves model accuracy and training efficiency, making it essential in any vision pipeline

  • Mastering pixel changes and motion patterns enables advanced AI systems to understand dynamic visual scenes.

What you'll learn

  • Raw audio waveforms must be transformed into structured numerical representations to enable effective processing by machine learning models.

  • Spectral features, STFT, MFSCs, & cepstral features, MFCCs, capture complementary signal info supporting ML classification, detection, recognition.

  • Noise injection, time-shifting, pitch modification & speed adjustment improve model generalization in real-world acoustic environments.

  • Automated audio augmentation pipelines are essential for production-ready AI systems ensuring reliable performance across diverse conditions.

What you'll learn

  • Performance monitoring needs quantitative metrics and audio sample analysis to understand model behaviour and failures.

  • Audio failures often link to environmental conditions found through spectrogram and signal quality analysis.

  • Effective debugging combines statistical measures with audio analysis techniques for actionable insights

  • Root cause analysis requires understanding data quality, environmental factors, and model architecture relationships.

What you'll learn

  • Unified data schemas with common metadata fields enable efficient querying and joining of diverse data types for machine learning applications.

  • DAG-based orchestration platforms enable reliable data pipelines with built-in dependency control and robust error handling.

  • Strategic indexing and data type selection in schema design directly impacts storage efficiency and retrieval performance for ML training at scale.

  • Automated ETL with scheduling and monitoring converts raw multimodal data into ML-ready features while reducing manual effort .

What you'll learn

  • Data quality is the foundation of reliable multimodal AI systems - poor quality input inevitably leads to poor system performance regardless.

  • Systematic validation across modalities requires understanding the technical alignment (timestamps, IDs) and semantic consistency (content matching).

  • Automated validation pipelines are essential for scaling multimodal data operations and catching issues before they propagate to model training.

  • Cross-modal integrity checks must be designed with domain-specific knowledge about how different data types should relate to each other properly.

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