TAO Generate Image Embeddings

Use this skill to run TAO Data Services image embedding. The skill consumes a parquet of image filepaths and writes a parquet with an embedding column. Downstream mining skills (tao-mine-od-images, tao-mine-nearest-neighbors) consume its output.

The container entrypoint is:

embedding image_embeddings -e /absolute/path/to/image_embeddings.yaml

Inputs

The user can provide either an existing spec or the fields needed to generate one.

Required spec fields: