External References

This file contains verified links to the official documentation, repositories, and resources for all major dependencies and tools used in this project.

Core Model

NameDescriptionURL
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B2B parameter Vision-Language Model for embeddingshttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B
Hugging Face TransformersModel loading and inferencehttps://huggingface.co/docs/transformers
AccelerateHardware-accelerated model loadinghttps://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate
Hugging Face HubModel weight download and cachinghttps://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub

APIs & Backend

NameDescriptionURL
FastAPIModern Python web frameworkhttps://fastapi.tiangolo.com
UvicornASGI server for FastAPIhttps://www.uvicorn.org
PydanticData validation (FastAPI dependency)https://docs.pydantic.dev

Data Storage

NameDescriptionURL
ChromaDBPersistent vector databasehttps://docs.trychroma.com

ML Runtime

NameDescriptionURL
PyTorchDeep learning frameworkhttps://pytorch.org/docs/stable/index.html
TorchVisionComputer vision transformshttps://pytorch.org/vision/stable/index.html

Image & Video Processing

NameDescriptionURL
Pillow (PIL)Image loading and manipulationhttps://pillow.readthedocs.io
pillow-heifHEIF/HEIC image support for Pillowhttps://github.com/niankie/pillow-heif
OpenCV (opencv-python)Video frame extractionhttps://docs.opencv.org

Utilities

NameDescriptionURL
qwen-vl-utilsVision processing for Qwen modelshttps://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen2-VL
tqdmProgress bars for CLIhttps://tqdm.github.io

Last Updated: 2026-06-17