Optimizing Weaviate for Image Embedding Search without Storing Images

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Hi @nomomon ! Welcome to our community :hugs:

I don’t think that one can use Weaviate vectorization modules and do not store the image with it as of now.

However, you can supply the vectors yourself. So when a new image comes in, you vectorize it yourself, ingest only the image metadata (filename, geolocation, etc.), it’s vectors and the S3 reference.

Notice that, whenever doing a query, you will need to also vectorize the image in order to query it against your collection.

Here is a tutorial on how to work with custom vectors, that might help you:

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks!