Make your videos searchable by frame
I built a tool that does the following:
- user uploads video
- AI model parses each frame, identifies objects, and stores in a database
- User can then search a keyword and the tool shows them each frame that matches the keyword
the tool effectively makes any video "searchable" by frame, presenting the corresponding timestamp.
can anyone think of use cases, market verticals, etc. that i should go after to sell this SaaS to?
It sounds like you have a solution looking for a problem.
Having been in that position myself, my advice is to look for a problem first then build a solution to it, instead of trying to find use cases for something people might not need.
Being in this space, I can certainly think of uses for this.
However, I have a feeling that you are waaaaay too optimistic about how good this tool is (I'm talking about its accuracy).
Do you use ML models that are already trained? Trained for recognizing what? What's your accuracy?
Yes! This is great for documentary filmmakers who need to search through news clips/footage to find specific parts relating to the subject matter of their films.
When I was working on a documentary a couple of years back, I reached out to news outlets to get b-roll footage. Some of them had rudimentary versions of what you are describing but it looked to me like they there cataloged manually using keywords entered by a human or maybe simple audio to text conversion software.
You should approach news orgs who license their footage to integrate your service with their footage search.
Per frame analysis would be great. If you can tie it in with the audio in addition to images, all the better.
ALl the best!
I'd say create an api. As for the idea however, I do this way more with words than objects in a frame. For example, when I want to find a topic in a large video on youtube; I open the transcript and search for the phrase. It will then bring me to the timestamp.
Off topic counter idea below.
But on youtube there a bunch of videos that are clipped together to explain a narrative. Take motivation videos for example. They are just a bunch of clips reinforcing a specific point. It would be awesome to type a topic or a word, add a bunch of youtube links, and it stiches together the parts of the videos that talk about the topic.