How-to Guides

• Enable the API

  Select a Cloud Console project, set up billing, and enable the Video Intelligence API.

• Authenticate to the API

  Set up authentication for your calls to the Video Intelligence.

• Analyzing videos for labels

  Analyze labels in a video.

• Analyzing videos for shot changes

  Analyze shot changes in a video.

• Analyzing videos for explicit content

  Analyze explicit content in a video.

• Tracking objects

  Tracking specific objects across video segments.

• Recognizing logos

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

• Recognizing text

  Detecting and transcribing text present in video.

• Performing speech transcription in videos

  Transcribe speech from a video into text.

• Base64 encoding

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

Beta features

• Beta client libraries

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

• Recognizing celebrities

  Use Video Intelligence API to detect and recognize the presence of celebrity faces.

• Streaming annotation on a video file

  Annotate or track objects from a stream from a file.

• Streaming annotation from a live stream

  Annotate or track objects from a live video stream.