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+"""Vision utilities for ExLlamaV2."""
+
+import io
+import base64
+import re
+from PIL import Image
+import aiohttp
+from common.networking import (
+    handle_request_error,
+)
+from fastapi import HTTPException
+from exllamav2 import (
+    ExLlamaV2,
+    ExLlamaV2Tokenizer,
+    ExLlamaV2VisionTower,
+    ExLlamaV2MMEmbedding,
+)
+from functools import lru_cache
+
+
+async def get_image(url: str) -> Image:
+    if url.startswith("data:image"):
+        # Handle base64 image
+        match = re.match(r"^data:image\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+;base64,(.*)$", url)
+        if match:
+            base64_image = match.group(1)
+            bytes_image = base64.b64decode(base64_image)
+        else:
+            error_message = handle_request_error(
+                "Failed to read base64 image input.",
+                exc_info=False,
+            ).error.message
+
+            raise HTTPException(400, error_message)
+
+    else:
+        # Handle image URL
+        async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
+            async with session.get(url) as response:
+                if response.status == 200:
+                    bytes_image = await response.read()
+                else:
+                    error_message = handle_request_error(
+                        f"Failed to fetch image from {url}.",
+                        exc_info=False,
+                    ).error.message
+
+                    raise HTTPException(400, error_message)
+
+    return Image.open(io.BytesIO(bytes_image))
+
+
+@lru_cache(20)
+async def get_image_embedding(
+    model: ExLlamaV2,
+    tokenizer: ExLlamaV2Tokenizer,
+    vision_model: ExLlamaV2VisionTower,
+    url: str,
+) -> ExLlamaV2MMEmbedding:
+    image = await get_image(url)
+    return vision_model.get_image_embeddings(
+        model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer, image=image
+    )