Slide Insight

This repository contains a collection of notebooks for gaining insights into presentation slides through multimodal AI models. Some goals are:

• Comparison of different models and their performance on summarizing the content of presentation slides. This is not implemented through text-to-text models but rather through image-to-text (multimodal) models. As a first test pdf I3D:bio's Training Material 'WhatIsOMERO.pdf' (Schmidt, C., Bortolomeazzi, M. et al., 2023) is used.
• Establishing a workflow that is capable of grouping Slides from multiple presentations together based on their representation as a word embedding. This helps to gather all available information concerning one specific topic from different presentations. Testing Data is again I3D:bio's Training Material and also Presentation Slides from the Bio-image Data Science Lectures from Robert Haase (licensed under CC-BY 4.0).
• Improve our understanding about how different types of embeddings represent the same content. For this task, some presentation slides are adapted to see whether text, visual or mixed-modal embeddings perform comparably well in representating a slides features, when the slide is changed in a specific manner. For this, slides are adapted from the Bio-image Data Science Lectures.

To access the AI models used in this repository, this free Service from Github is used.

Be aware that there are certain rate limits for each model!

Before getting started:

Make sure to generate a developer key / personal access token on Github and set it as an environment variable. You can generate the token via the Github website under user settings and afterwards set it like this for your current session:

bash:

export GITHUB_TOKEN= "your-github-token-goes-here"

powershell:

$Env:GITHUB_TOKEN= "your-github-token-goes-here"

Windows command prompt:

set GITHUB_TOKEN= your-github-token-goes-here