A Vision Transformer encodes images into dense embedding vectors for visual, conceptual, and multimodal search. section 15.3.1
In a search pipeline, it can:
- Encode images and index their vectors for image-to-image similarity search. section 15.3.1
- Place image and text representations in a shared vector space for cross-modal retrieval. section 15.3.1
- Support image, text, or combined image-text queries against visual content. section 15.3.1






