Video Intelligence API

Google Video Intelligence API is one of the machine learning services exposed under the Cloud AI vertical. This service is used to analyze a video and its contents using machine learning models.

This service can:

  • Gather insights from 20,000 labels
  • Search video catalogues
  • Distinguish scenes using shot detection

Some of the best use cases for this API are:

  • Content recommendation
  • Content moderation
  • Contextual advertisements
  • Searchable media archives

Using this API, we can detect the following:

  • Label detection: From a given video, identify various items/things present in the video
  • Explicit Content Detection: Detect adult content in a video, along with the position of occurance
  • Shot Change detection: Detect scene changes ...

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