stream2videointelligence

A simple and effective tool to access the Google Cloud Platform's Video Intelligence API and get near real-time insights

About • Features • Build • Configuration • Usage • License

About

Cloud Video Intelligence API Streaming is a simple and efficient tool for streaming to the Google Cloud Platform Video Intelligence API.

Features

• ✅ A single statically compiled binary for each OS/architecture
• ✅ Can retrieve the data to be streamed directly via a pipe
• ✅ Can retrieve the data to be streamed from a file
• ✅ Can save annotations in a Cloud Storage bucket
• ✅ Can save annotations in real-time to a local file
• ✅ Can pass annotation data in real-time to another program through its stdout output

Build

First check that you have Golang installed on your machine.
Then, run:

make 

Quite simply!

Configuration

This program has a number of options, as follows:

Options	Description	Mandatory
-creds	Service account JSON key file path	Yes
-source	Path of a file used as a source instead of a pipe	No
-feature	API Cloud Video Intelligence streaming feature	Yes
-gcs	GCS URI to store all annotation results	No
-stdout	Print in stdout results from the API	No
-export	Export the annotation results from the API to a file	No

Note:

• You must choose to enable at least one option between -gcs, -stdout or -export
• If -source is not set, the data must be piped from another program
• The different features supported by the Cloud Video Intelligence API in streaming mode are STREAMING_OBJECT_TRACKING, STREAMING_LABEL_DETECTION, STREAMING_EXPLICIT_CONTENT_DETECTION, STREAMING_SHOT_CHANGE_DETECTION

Usage

Example of use with a pipe:

gst-launch-1.0 -q -v v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw,framerate=30/1,width=640,height=480 ! videoconvert ! videoscale ! videorate ! x264enc tune=zerolatency speed-preset=6 ! flvmux ! queue ! fdsink | ./stream2videointelligence -creds ./credientials.json -feature STREAMING_OBJECT_TRACKING -stdout

Example of use with a video file:

./stream2videointelligence -creds ./credentials.json -source video.flv -feature STREAMING_OBJECT_TRACKING -stdout

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.