Eden AIWhat is Video Content Analysis (VCA)?
Video Content Analysis (VCA) also known as Video Analysis (VA) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that uses machine learning algorithms to analyze and understand the content of videos. It refers to the process of examining, interpreting, and extracting information from video content for various purposes. It can be performed by automated or manual methods, and is generally used in a wide range of fields, including surveillance, sports, entertainment, medical research, and transportation.
In Video Analysis, video content is typically processed to extract relevant information, such as objects, scenes, and events, which are then analyzed to gain insights, form decisions, or identify patterns. For example, in sports, video footage of a game can be analyzed to track player movements and tactics, assess performance and identify areas for improvement. In surveillance, video analysis can detect and track suspicious behavior, monitor crowd movements, and support investigations.
VCA tasks to help you manage your video content
You can choose between several Video Analysis functionalities to meet your needs:
Object Detection
Also known as Label Detection, Object Detection can be used to identify objects, scenes, activities, and other visual elements within video content. The API processes the video frame by frame and later assigns labels that describe the visual content.
Object Tracking
The technology tracks objects frame by frame and then maintains their identification as they move within the video, allowing the user to keep track of their position and orientation as the video progresses.
Face Detection
Face Detection refers to the process of automatically identifying faces in a video. It then extracts facial features and performs facial analysis tasks such as age and gender estimation, in addition, the API can analyze body language to determine emotions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, or surprise.
People Tracking
Similar to Object Tracking, this technology has the ability to identify and locate individuals within video frames. The technology then provides the number of times they appear in the video.
Text Detection
Text Detection technology automatically detects text within a video frame, extracts the text as a string, and then recognizes the characters and converts them into a readable string using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology.
For more information on this feature, you can check out our Top 10 Optical Character Recognition.
Explicit Content Detection
This functionality is designed to analyze video frames and automatically detect visual patterns that are associated with explicit or inappropriate content. It then delivers a label or score that reflects the level of probability that the content is explicit in general.
If you’re interested in Explicit Content AIs, you might also want to check out our Top 10 Explicit Content engines for images.
Logo Detection
Logo Detection in video help analyze video frames and detect specific logos or branding elements. The API then provides information about the location and size of the detected logos.
It's important to note the accuracy of a logo detection API will depend on factors such as the quality of the training data used to develop the underlying models, the quality of the video content being analyzed, and the specific algorithms used to detect logos.
Best Video Analysis APIs on the market
While comparing Video Analysis APIs, it is crucial to consider different aspects, among others, cost security and privacy. Video Analysis experts at Eden AI tested, compared, and used many Video Analysis APIs of the market. Here are some actors that perform well (in alphabetical order):
- Amazon Rekognition Video
- CloudSight
- DeepAffects
- Google Cloud Video Intelligence
- Muse AI
- Repustate
1. Amazon Rekognition Video
Amazon Rekognition Video offers a comprehensive suite of video analysis features, including face recognition, object and scene detection, text recognition, and celebrity recognition.
2. CloudSight
CloudSight is known for its highly accurate object recognition technology, which allows it to identify and tag thousands of objects in videos in real-time. It also offers robust video analysis features such as motion tracking, facial recognition, and sentiment analysis.
3. DeepAffects
DeepAffects has a unique focus on emotion analysis in videos, providing frame-level analysis of emotions, actions, and attention in real-time. Its technology can detect a wide range of emotions, including happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust.
4. Google Cloud Video Intelligence
Google Cloud Video Intelligence is a popular choice for businesses that require real-time video analysis thanks to its fast processing times and ability to analyze live video streams. It also offers advanced features such as shot detection, object tracking, and speaker diarization.
5. Muse AI
Muse AI is a video analysis platform designed to be user-friendly and accessible to non-technical users. It provides a range of features including object detection, facial recognition, and emotion analysis, and also offers real-time video analytics and insights.
6. Repustate
Repustate is unique in offering video analytics services along with its text and sentiment analysis APIs. Its video analytics API provides detailed analysis of the visual and audio content of videos. This includes the ability to detect objects and scenes, analyze sentiment and emotions, and recognize text within the video content.
Performance variations of Video Content Analysis APIs
For all companies who use Video Analytics in their software: cost and performance are real concerns. The VCA market is quite dense and all those providers have their benefits and weaknesses.
Performances of Video Analysis APIs vary according to the specificity of data used by each AI engine for their model training. This means that some Video Analysis APIs perform well at detecting objects while others may perform better at detecting logos in video.
Bear in mind that if the user has very specific data, not all provider’s engine will be able to recognize what the user is looking for. If you have customers coming from different fields, you must consider this detail and optimize your choice of provider.
Why choose Eden AI to manage your Video Analysis APIs
Companies and developers from a wide range of industries (Social Media, Retail, Health, Finances, Law, etc.) use Eden AI’s unique API to easily integrate Video Analysis tasks in their cloud-based applications, without having to build their own solutions.
Eden AI offers multiple AI APIs on its platform amongst several technologies: Text-to-Speech, Language Detection, Sentiment analysis API, Summarization, Question Answering, Data Anonymization, Speech recognition, and so forth.
We want our users to have access to multiple Video Analysis engines and manage them in one place so they can reach high performance, optimize cost and cover all their needs. There are many reasons for using multiple APIs :
- Fallback provider is the ABCs: You need to set up a provider API that is requested if and only if the main Video Analysis API does not perform well (or is down). You can use confidence score returned or other methods to check provider accuracy.
- Performance optimization: After the testing phase, you will be able to build a mapping of providers’ performance based on the criteria you have chosen (languages, fields, etc.). Each data that you need to process will then be sent to the best Video Analysis API.
- Cost - Performance ratio optimization: You can choose the cheapest Video Analysis provider that performs well for your data.
- Combine multiple AI APIs: This approach is required if you look for extremely high accuracy. The combination leads to higher costs but allows your AI service to be safe and accurate because Video Analysis APIs will validate and invalidate each other for each piece of data.
How Eden AI can help you?
Eden AI has been made for multiple AI APIs use. Eden AI is the future of AI usage in companies. Eden AI allows you to call multiple AI APIs.
- Centralized and fully monitored billing on Eden AI for all Video Analysis APIs
- Unified API for all providers: simple and standard to use, quick switch between providers, access to the specific features of each provider
- Standardized response format: the JSON output format is the same for all suppliers thanks to Eden AI's standardization work. The response elements are also standardized thanks to Eden AI's powerful matching algorithms.
- The best Artificial Intelligence APIs in the market are available: big cloud providers (Google, AWS, Microsoft, and more specialized engines)
- Data protection: Eden AI will not store or use any data. Possibility to filter to use only GDPR engines.
You can see Eden AI documentation here.
Next step in your project
The Eden AI team can help you with your Video Analysis integration project. This can be done by :
- Organizing a product demo and a discussion to better understand your needs. You can book a time slot on this link: Contact
- By testing the public version of Eden AI for free: however, not all providers are available on this version. Some are only available on the Enterprise version.
- By benefiting from the support and advice of a team of experts to find the optimal combination of providers according to the specifics of your needs
- Having the possibility to integrate on a third party platform: we can quickly develop connectors
