How-to Guides

• Authenticate to the API

  Select a Cloud Console project, set up billing, and enable the Video Intelligence API, and set up authentication for your calls to the Video Intelligence.

• Analyzing videos for labels

  Analyze labels in a video.

• Detect shot changes

  Analyze shot changes in a video.

• Detect explicit content

  Analyze explicit content in a video.

• Track objects

  Tracking specific objects across video segments.

• Recognize logos

  Use Video Intelligence API to detect and recognize the presence of specific brand marques and logos.

• Recognize text

  Detecting and transcribing text present in video.

• Transcribe speech in videos

  Transcribe speech from a video into text.

• Long-running operations

  Check status or cancel an operation.

• Base64 encoding

  Base64 encode video content for use with some calls to the Video Intelligence.

Beta features

• Overview of features

  A brief description of each feature is provided.

• Beta client libraries

  Download the latest beta version of the client libraries for Video Intelligence API.

• Face detection

  Use Video Intelligence API to detect faces in a video.

• Person detection

  Use Video Intelligence API to detect people in a video file.

• Stream annotation on a video file

  Annotate or track objects from a stream from a file.

• Stream annotation from a live stream

  Annotate or track objects from a live video stream.