diff --git a/frigate/embeddings/functions/clip.py b/frigate/embeddings/functions/clip.py
index a4e75a510..55cdb3b47 100644
--- a/frigate/embeddings/functions/clip.py
+++ b/frigate/embeddings/functions/clip.py
@@ -4,18 +4,13 @@ import errno
 import logging
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Tuple, Union
+from typing import List, Union
 
+import numpy as np
 import onnxruntime as ort
 import requests
-from chromadb import EmbeddingFunction, Embeddings
-from chromadb.api.types import (
-    Documents,
-    Images,
-    is_document,
-    is_image,
-)
 from onnx_clip import OnnxClip
+from PIL import Image
 
 from frigate.const import MODEL_CACHE_DIR
 
@@ -27,7 +22,7 @@ class Clip(OnnxClip):
     def _load_models(
         model: str,
         silent: bool,
-    ) -> Tuple[ort.InferenceSession, ort.InferenceSession]:
+    ) -> tuple[ort.InferenceSession, ort.InferenceSession]:
         """
         These models are a part of the container. Treat as as such.
         """
@@ -87,20 +82,22 @@ class Clip(OnnxClip):
             return ort.InferenceSession(path, providers=providers)
 
 
-class ClipEmbedding(EmbeddingFunction):
-    """Embedding function for CLIP model used in Chroma."""
+class ClipEmbedding:
+    """Embedding function for CLIP model."""
 
     def __init__(self, model: str = "ViT-B/32"):
         """Initialize CLIP Embedding function."""
         self.model = Clip(model)
 
-    def __call__(self, input: Union[Documents, Images]) -> Embeddings:
-        embeddings: Embeddings = []
+    def __call__(self, input: Union[List[str], List[Image.Image]]) -> List[np.ndarray]:
+        embeddings = []
         for item in input:
-            if is_image(item):
+            if isinstance(item, Image.Image):
                 result = self.model.get_image_embeddings([item])
-                embeddings.append(result[0, :].tolist())
-            elif is_document(item):
+                embeddings.append(result[0])
+            elif isinstance(item, str):
                 result = self.model.get_text_embeddings([item])
-                embeddings.append(result[0, :].tolist())
+                embeddings.append(result[0])
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"Unsupported input type: {type(item)}")
         return embeddings