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vector-search-demo/oravector-demo/backend/embedder.py
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dierk 1c5e00d8e4 Add targeted comments explaining non-obvious behaviour
- embedder.py: lazy model load rationale, RGB conversion, shared vector space
- main.py: why vec appears twice, ::vector cast, 1-distance score formula
- main_oracle.py: why array.array("f") is required instead of plain list
- main_oracle_indb.py: no embedder import — embedding done inside Oracle SQL
- index_images_oracle.py: same array.array requirement on indexing path

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-19 14:39:40 +02:00

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from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from PIL import Image
_model = None
def _get_model():
# Lazy load: the CLIP model is ~600 MB and takes several seconds to initialise.
# Loading on first call avoids the cost at import time and during indexing warmup.
global _model
if _model is None:
_model = SentenceTransformer("clip-ViT-B-32")
return _model
def embed_image(path: str) -> list[float]:
# CLIP requires RGB — some JPEGs are stored as CMYK or grayscale.
img = Image.open(path).convert("RGB")
return _get_model().encode(img).tolist()
def embed_text(text: str) -> list[float]:
# Text and images share the same 512-dimensional vector space in CLIP,
# so the returned vector is directly comparable to image embeddings.
return _get_model().encode(text).tolist()