Instruction: Discuss the importance and methods of data preprocessing specific to handling multiple modes of data.
Context: This question assesses the candidate's understanding of the initial critical steps in building a Multimodal AI system and their ability to manage diverse data types effectively.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Preprocessing in multimodal systems does more than clean individual inputs. It makes modalities comparable enough to learn from together. That can include resizing images, normalizing audio, tokenizing text, aligning timestamps, standardizing metadata,...