Google Cloud Video Intelligence

Enable powerful content discovery and engaging video experiences.

Overview

Google Cloud Video Intelligence is a service that uses machine learning to analyze video content. It can detect objects, activities, and scenes within videos, enabling users to search and categorize video data efficiently. The API can recognize over 20,000 objects, places, and actions in stored and streaming video. It is designed for mass media companies and developers to create an indexed archive of their video library, making the content searchable and discoverable.

✨ Key Features

Label Detection
Shot Change Detection
Explicit Content Detection
Speech Transcription
Object Tracking
Text Detection (OCR)
Logo Recognition
Face Detection
Person Detection
Celebrity Recognition

🎯 Key Differentiators

Leverages Google's extensive search and YouTube data for model training.
Recognizes over 20,000 labels out-of-the-box.
Integration with the broader Google Cloud ecosystem.

Unique Value: Provides highly accurate and detailed video metadata using Google's advanced machine learning, enabling powerful content search, discovery, and moderation at scale.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

Automated video indexing and cataloging Content moderation for user-generated content Building content recommendation engines Contextual advertising placement Media asset management and search

            ✅ Best For
            CBS Interactive uses it to generate video metadata to enhance the video experience for their 38 media brands.

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

Real-time video analysis with extremely low latency requirements (though it supports streaming analysis, latency might not be suitable for all real-time applications)
Analysis of highly specialized or domain-specific video content without custom model training (AutoML Video Intelligence would be a better fit for this).

🏆 Alternatives

Amazon Rekognition Microsoft Azure Video Indexer IBM Watson Video Enrichment

Offers a broader range of out-of-the-box recognized entities and actions compared to some competitors, and benefits from the deep integration with other Google Cloud services for building comprehensive media workflows.

💻 Platforms

API

🔌 Integrations

Google Cloud Storage Google Cloud Functions Google Cloud Pub/Sub Vertex AI API

🛟 Support Options

✓ Email Support
✓ Live Chat
✓ Phone Support
✓ Dedicated Support (Enhanced Support, Premium Support tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ HIPAA ✓ BAA Available ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 1 ✓ SOC 2 ✓ SOC 3 ✓ ISO/IEC 27001 ✓ ISO/IEC 27017 ✓ ISO/IEC 27018 ✓ FedRAMP ✓ PCI DSS

💰 Pricing

Contact for pricing

Free Tier Available

✓ 14-day free trial

Free tier: 1,000 minutes per month for stored video annotation and 1,000 minutes for streaming video annotation.

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