Live data from Hacker News

Cloud Video Intelligence API

cloud.google.com

1–10 of 91 posts

Re: Cloud Video Intelligence API

#2
I wonder if Snapchat is/will become a large user of this service? Depending on the average response time of this API, Snapchat could get much better ad targeting analyzing their Stories content.

I imagine that they have something similar in house that they run since it is pretty vital to their core business, but you never know.

Re: Cloud Video Intelligence API

#3
I'm curious about how much use these general-purpose computer vision APIs are actually getting. How many companies out there really want to sift through a lot of photos to find ones that contain "sailboat"? I'm inclined to think a lot more companies would want to find "one of these five different specific kinds of sailboats performing this action", which is definitely not among the tens of thousands of predefined labels that Google, and Amazon, offer with their general purpose models.

High-quality custom model training as a service seems much more compelling.

Re: Cloud Video Intelligence API

#5
post #3

I'm curious about how much use these general-purpose computer vision APIs are actually getting. How many companies out there really want to sift through a lot of photos to find ones that contain "sailboat"? I'm inclined to think a lot more companies would want to find "one of these five different specific kinds of sailboats performing this action", which is definitely not among the tens of thousands of predefined lab…

It depends on the data set and the images in question.

Of course taking as an example for a sport’s clothing company where their digital assets are mostly related to their products a general purpose API might not get the subtle differences between two similar shoes, or clothing lines from different seasons. But it might be enough to help catalog that one image or video has a sports person in, and the other is a fashion shoot or product shot.

Re: Cloud Video Intelligence API

#6
I think there is a need for a comprehensive system for image and video data analytics. Much like how we today have relational databases (postgres, MYSQL) and full text search engines (lucene/Solr). The approach Google or Amazon have been taking which involves providing a "tagging" API is frankly unimaginative.

I am working on Deep Video Analytics an Open Source Visual Search and Analytics platform for images and videos. The goal of Deep Video analytics is to become a quickly customizable platform for developing visual & video analytics applications, while benefiting from seamless integration with state or the art models released by the vision research community. Its currently in very active development but still well tested and usable without having to write any code.

https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/DeepVideoAnalytics

https://deepvideoanalytics.com

Re: Cloud Video Intelligence API

#7
post #3

I'm curious about how much use these general-purpose computer vision APIs are actually getting. How many companies out there really want to sift through a lot of photos to find ones that contain "sailboat"? I'm inclined to think a lot more companies would want to find "one of these five different specific kinds of sailboats performing this action", which is definitely not among the tens of thousands of predefined lab…

one immediate need is NSFW flagging, esp. things that might indicate abuse.

Re: Cloud Video Intelligence API

#8
post #3

I'm curious about how much use these general-purpose computer vision APIs are actually getting. How many companies out there really want to sift through a lot of photos to find ones that contain "sailboat"? I'm inclined to think a lot more companies would want to find "one of these five different specific kinds of sailboats performing this action", which is definitely not among the tens of thousands of predefined lab…

Can't you do model training with the google vision API?

Re: Cloud Video Intelligence API

#10
post #3

I'm curious about how much use these general-purpose computer vision APIs are actually getting. How many companies out there really want to sift through a lot of photos to find ones that contain "sailboat"? I'm inclined to think a lot more companies would want to find "one of these five different specific kinds of sailboats performing this action", which is definitely not among the tens of thousands of predefined lab…

[deleted]
Post reply on HN