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Multimodal Intelligence - Vision, Audio & Language in Action Professional Certificate

Coursera

Multimodal Intelligence - Vision, Audio & Language in Action Professional Certificate

Build and Deploy Multimodal AI Systems.

Design, train, evaluate, and deploy multimodal AI systems that process text, images, and audio.

Access provided by Xavier School of Management, XLRI

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

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

What you'll learn

  • Design end-to-end multimodal AI architectures that integrate image, audio, and text data streams into scalable production pipelines.

  • Fine-tune transformer-based multimodal models using transfer learning and evaluate performance with cross-modal and ethical AI metrics.

  • Build automated ETL pipelines and unified data schemas to ingest, validate, and store multimodal features for model training and inference.

  • Deploy versioned, secured, and documented inference APIs on containerized Kubernetes infrastructure with real-time performance optimization.

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Professional Certificate - 5 course series

Solution Architecture and Ethical AI Design

Solution Architecture and Ethical AI Design

Course 1, 4 hours

What you'll learn

  • Design end-to-end multimodal AI architectures that integrate image, audio, and text pipelines into scalable, production-ready systems.

  • Evaluate multimodal model performance using cross-modal metrics including FID, CLIP scores, recall@k, and Visual Question Answering accuracy.

  • Apply ethical AI frameworks to assess model bias using demographic parity and equalized odds across sensitive population subgroups.

  • Generate model interpretability reports using LIME and SHAP to explain AI predictions and communicate findings to technical stakeholders.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Image Analysis
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Technical Documentation
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Computer Science
Category: Data Science
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Algorithms
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Data Integration
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Data Processing
Category: Scalability

What you'll learn

  • Fine-tune transformer-based multimodal models using transfer learning in PyTorch and TensorFlow.

  • Build cross-modal retrieval systems using FAISS and attention-based fusion of visual and text embeddings.

  • Automate ML pipelines with drift monitoring, hyperparameter tuning, and retraining using MLflow and Ray Tune.

  • Design and document versioned multimodal inference APIs with FastAPI, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Vision Transformer (ViT)
Category: OAuth
Category: Data Architecture
Category: Data Science
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Transfer Learning
Category: API Design
Category: Tensorflow
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Restful API
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Machine Learning Software

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.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Transfer Learning
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Data Architecture
Category: Digital Signal Processing
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Computer Vision
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Image Analysis
Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Machine Learning Software
Category: Hugging Face
Production-Ready Multimodal ML Engineering

Production-Ready Multimodal ML Engineering

Course 4, 12 hours

What you'll learn

  • Design a multimodal feature store and build automated ETL pipelines using BigQuery and Airflow.

  • Write test-driven ML training code and validate multimodal datasets for production readiness.

  • Optimize model inference with TensorRT and manage ML codebases using GitFlow and CI/CD tools.

  • Deploy GPU-accelerated services on Kubernetes and tune autoscaling for real-time performance.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Scalability
Category: CI/CD
Category: Data Validation
Category: Containerization
Category: Machine Learning Software
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Data Quality
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Real Time Data
Category: Algorithms
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Apache Airflow
Career Development for Multimodal Intelligence

Career Development for Multimodal Intelligence

Course 5, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Build multimodal AI systems that integrate vision, audio, and language using cross-attention fusion and transformer architectures.

  • Deploy production-ready multimodal models with optimized inference pipelines, containerization, and automated MLOps workflows.

  • Architect cross-modal retrieval and fusion systems using contrastive learning and embedding alignment for real-world applications.

Skills you'll gain

Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Image Analysis
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Computer Vision
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Vision Transformer (ViT)
Category: Generative AI
Category: Tensorflow
Category: Deep Learning
Category: Model Deployment
Category: System Design and Implementation

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