Tracking objects

Object tracking tracks multiple objects detected in an input video. To make an object tracking request, call the annotate method and specify OBJECT_TRACKING in the features field.

An object tracking request annotates a video with labels (tags) for entities that are detected in the video or video segments provided. For example, a video of vehicles crossing a traffic signal might produce labels such as "car", "truck", "bike," "tires", "lights", "window" and so on. Each label can include a series of bounding boxes, with each bounding box having an associated time segment containing a time offset (timestamp) that indicates the duration offset from the beginning of the video. The annotation also contains additional entity information including an entity id that you can use to find more information about the entity in the Google Knowledge Graph Search API.

Object Tracking vs. Label Detection

Object tracking differs from label detection in that label detection provides labels without bounding boxes, while object tracking detects the presence of individual boxable objects in a given video along with the bounding box for each.

Request Object Tracking for a Video on Cloud Storage

The following samples demonstrate object tracking on a file located in Cloud Storage.

REST & CMD LINE

Send the process request

The following shows how to send a POST request to the annotate method. The example uses the access token for a service account set up for the project using the Cloud SDK. For instructions on installing the Cloud SDK, setting up a project with a service account, and obtaining an access token, see the Video Intelligence quickstart.

Before using any of the request data below, make the following replacements:

  • input-uri: base-64-encoded-content
    For example:
    "inputUri": "gs://cloud-videointelligence-demo/assistant.mp4",

HTTP method and URL: 

POST https://videointelligence.googleapis.com/v1/videos:annotate

Request JSON body: 

{
  "inputUri": "base-64-encoded-content",
  "features": ["OBJECT_TRACKING"]
}

To send your request, expand one of these options:

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

{
  "name": "projects/project-number/locations/location-id/operations/operation-id"
}

If the request is successful, the Video Intelligence API returns the name of your operation. The above shows an example of such a response, where project-number is the number of your project and operation-id is the ID of the long-running operation created for the request.

Get the results

To get the results of your request, send a GET, using the operation name returned from the call to videos:annotate, as shown in the following example.

Before using any of the request data below, make the following replacements:

  • operation-name: the name of the operation as returned by the Video Intelligence API. The operation name has the format projects/project-number/locations/location-id/operations/operation-id

HTTP method and URL: 

GET https://videointelligence.googleapis.com/v1/operation-name

To send your request, expand one of these options:

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

C#

public static object TrackObjectGcs(string gcsUri)
{
    var client = VideoIntelligenceServiceClient.Create();
    var request = new AnnotateVideoRequest
    {
        InputUri = gcsUri,
        Features = { Feature.ObjectTracking },
        // It is recommended to use location_id as 'us-east1' for the
        // best latency due to different types of processors used in
        // this region and others.
        LocationId = "us-east1"
    };

    Console.WriteLine("\nProcessing video for object annotations.");
    var op = client.AnnotateVideo(request).PollUntilCompleted();

    Console.WriteLine("\nFinished processing.\n");

    // Retrieve first result because a single video was processed.
    var objectAnnotations = op.Result.AnnotationResults[0]
                              .ObjectAnnotations;

    // Get only the first annotation for demo purposes
    var objAnnotation = objectAnnotations[0];

    Console.WriteLine(
        $"Entity description: {objAnnotation.Entity.Description}");

    if (objAnnotation.Entity.EntityId != null)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(
            $"Entity id: {objAnnotation.Entity.EntityId}");
    }

    Console.Write($"Segment: ");
    Console.WriteLine(
        String.Format("{0}s to {1}s",
                      objAnnotation.Segment.StartTimeOffset.Seconds +
                      objAnnotation.Segment.StartTimeOffset.Nanos / 1e9,
                      objAnnotation.Segment.EndTimeOffset.Seconds +
                      objAnnotation.Segment.EndTimeOffset.Nanos / 1e9));

    Console.WriteLine($"Confidence: {objAnnotation.Confidence}");

    // Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in this segment
    var frame = objAnnotation.Frames[0];
    var box = frame.NormalizedBoundingBox;
    Console.WriteLine(
        String.Format("Time offset of the first frame: {0}s",
                      frame.TimeOffset.Seconds +
                      frame.TimeOffset.Nanos / 1e9));
    Console.WriteLine("Bounding box positions:");
    Console.WriteLine($"\tleft   : {box.Left}");
    Console.WriteLine($"\ttop    : {box.Top}");
    Console.WriteLine($"\tright  : {box.Right}");
    Console.WriteLine($"\tbottom : {box.Bottom}");

    return 0;
}

Go


import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	video "cloud.google.com/go/videointelligence/apiv1"
	"github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes"
	videopb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/cloud/videointelligence/v1"
)

// objectTrackingGCS analyzes a video and extracts entities with their bounding boxes.
func objectTrackingGCS(w io.Writer, gcsURI string) error {
	// gcsURI := "gs://cloud-samples-data/video/cat.mp4"

	ctx := context.Background()

	// Creates a client.
	client, err := video.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("video.NewClient: %v", err)
	}

	op, err := client.AnnotateVideo(ctx, &videopb.AnnotateVideoRequest{
		InputUri: gcsURI,
		Features: []videopb.Feature{
			videopb.Feature_OBJECT_TRACKING,
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("AnnotateVideo: %v", err)
	}

	resp, err := op.Wait(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Wait: %v", err)
	}

	// Only one video was processed, so get the first result.
	result := resp.GetAnnotationResults()[0]

	for _, annotation := range result.ObjectAnnotations {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Description: %q\n", annotation.Entity.GetDescription())
		if len(annotation.Entity.EntityId) > 0 {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tEntity ID: %q\n", annotation.Entity.GetEntityId())
		}

		segment := annotation.GetSegment()
		start, _ := ptypes.Duration(segment.GetStartTimeOffset())
		end, _ := ptypes.Duration(segment.GetEndTimeOffset())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tSegment: %v to %v\n", start, end)

		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tConfidence: %f\n", annotation.GetConfidence())

		// Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in this segment.
		frame := annotation.GetFrames()[0]
		seconds := float32(frame.GetTimeOffset().GetSeconds())
		nanos := float32(frame.GetTimeOffset().GetNanos())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tTime offset of the first frame: %fs\n", seconds+nanos/1e9)

		box := frame.GetNormalizedBoundingBox()
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tBounding box position:\n")
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\tleft  : %f\n", box.GetLeft())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\ttop   : %f\n", box.GetTop())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\tright : %f\n", box.GetRight())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\tbottom: %f\n", box.GetBottom())
	}

	return nil
}

Java

/**
 * Track objects in a video.
 *
 * @param gcsUri the path to the video file to analyze.
 */
public static VideoAnnotationResults trackObjectsGcs(String gcsUri) throws Exception {
  try (VideoIntelligenceServiceClient client = VideoIntelligenceServiceClient.create()) {
    // Create the request
    AnnotateVideoRequest request = AnnotateVideoRequest.newBuilder()
        .setInputUri(gcsUri)
        .addFeatures(Feature.OBJECT_TRACKING)
        .setLocationId("us-east1")
        .build();

    // asynchronously perform object tracking on videos
    OperationFuture<AnnotateVideoResponse, AnnotateVideoProgress> future =
        client.annotateVideoAsync(request);

    System.out.println("Waiting for operation to complete...");
    // The first result is retrieved because a single video was processed.
    AnnotateVideoResponse response = future.get(300, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    VideoAnnotationResults results = response.getAnnotationResults(0);

    // Get only the first annotation for demo purposes.
    ObjectTrackingAnnotation annotation = results.getObjectAnnotations(0);
    System.out.println("Confidence: " + annotation.getConfidence());

    if (annotation.hasEntity()) {
      Entity entity = annotation.getEntity();
      System.out.println("Entity description: " + entity.getDescription());
      System.out.println("Entity id:: " + entity.getEntityId());
    }

    if (annotation.hasSegment()) {
      VideoSegment videoSegment = annotation.getSegment();
      Duration startTimeOffset = videoSegment.getStartTimeOffset();
      Duration endTimeOffset = videoSegment.getEndTimeOffset();
      // Display the segment time in seconds, 1e9 converts nanos to seconds
      System.out.println(String.format(
          "Segment: %.2fs to %.2fs",
          startTimeOffset.getSeconds() + startTimeOffset.getNanos() / 1e9,
          endTimeOffset.getSeconds() + endTimeOffset.getNanos() / 1e9));
    }

    // Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in this segment.
    ObjectTrackingFrame frame = annotation.getFrames(0);
    // Display the offset time in seconds, 1e9 converts nanos to seconds
    Duration timeOffset = frame.getTimeOffset();
    System.out.println(String.format(
        "Time offset of the first frame: %.2fs",
        timeOffset.getSeconds() + timeOffset.getNanos() / 1e9));

    // Display the bounding box of the detected object
    NormalizedBoundingBox normalizedBoundingBox = frame.getNormalizedBoundingBox();
    System.out.println("Bounding box position:");
    System.out.println("\tleft: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getLeft());
    System.out.println("\ttop: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getTop());
    System.out.println("\tright: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getRight());
    System.out.println("\tbottom: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getBottom());
    return results;
  }
}

Node.js

// Imports the Google Cloud Video Intelligence library
const Video = require('@google-cloud/video-intelligence');

// Creates a client
const video = new Video.VideoIntelligenceServiceClient();

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following line before running the sample.
 */
// const gcsUri = 'GCS URI of the video to analyze, e.g. gs://my-bucket/my-video.mp4';

const request = {
  inputUri: gcsUri,
  features: ['OBJECT_TRACKING'],
  //recommended to use us-east1 for the best latency due to different types of processors used in this region and others
  locationId: 'us-east1',
};
// Detects objects in a video
const [operation] = await video.annotateVideo(request);
const results = await operation.promise();
console.log('Waiting for operation to complete...');
//Gets annotations for video
const annotations = results[0].annotationResults[0];
const objects = annotations.objectAnnotations;
objects.forEach(object => {
  console.log(`Entity description:  ${object.entity.description}`);
  console.log(`Entity id: ${object.entity.entityId}`);
  const time = object.segment;
  console.log(
    `Segment: ${time.startTimeOffset.seconds || 0}` +
      `.${(time.startTimeOffset.nanos / 1e6).toFixed(0)}s to ${time
        .endTimeOffset.seconds || 0}.` +
      `${(time.endTimeOffset.nanos / 1e6).toFixed(0)}s`
  );
  console.log(`Confidence: ${object.confidence}`);
  const frame = object.frames[0];
  const box = frame.normalizedBoundingBox;
  const timeOffset = frame.timeOffset;
  console.log(
    `Time offset for the first frame: ${timeOffset.seconds || 0}` +
      `.${(timeOffset.nanos / 1e6).toFixed(0)}s`
  );
  console.log(`Bounding box position:`);
  console.log(` left   :${box.left}`);
  console.log(` top    :${box.top}`);
  console.log(` right  :${box.right}`);
  console.log(` bottom :${box.bottom}`);
});

Python

"""Object tracking in a video stored on GCS."""
from google.cloud import videointelligence

video_client = videointelligence.VideoIntelligenceServiceClient()
features = [videointelligence.enums.Feature.OBJECT_TRACKING]
operation = video_client.annotate_video(input_uri=gcs_uri, features=features)
print("\nProcessing video for object annotations.")

result = operation.result(timeout=300)
print("\nFinished processing.\n")

# The first result is retrieved because a single video was processed.
object_annotations = result.annotation_results[0].object_annotations

for object_annotation in object_annotations:
    print("Entity description: {}".format(object_annotation.entity.description))
    if object_annotation.entity.entity_id:
        print("Entity id: {}".format(object_annotation.entity.entity_id))

    print(
        "Segment: {}s to {}s".format(
            object_annotation.segment.start_time_offset.seconds
            + object_annotation.segment.start_time_offset.nanos / 1e9,
            object_annotation.segment.end_time_offset.seconds
            + object_annotation.segment.end_time_offset.nanos / 1e9,
        )
    )

    print("Confidence: {}".format(object_annotation.confidence))

    # Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in the segment
    frame = object_annotation.frames[0]
    box = frame.normalized_bounding_box
    print(
        "Time offset of the first frame: {}s".format(
            frame.time_offset.seconds + frame.time_offset.nanos / 1e9
        )
    )
    print("Bounding box position:")
    print("\tleft  : {}".format(box.left))
    print("\ttop   : {}".format(box.top))
    print("\tright : {}".format(box.right))
    print("\tbottom: {}".format(box.bottom))
    print("\n")

Ruby

# path = "Path to a video file on Google Cloud Storage: gs://bucket/video.mp4"

require "google/cloud/video_intelligence"

video = Google::Cloud::VideoIntelligence.new

# Register a callback during the method call
operation = video.annotate_video input_uri: path, features: [:OBJECT_TRACKING] do |operation|
  raise operation.results.message? if operation.error?
  puts "Finished Processing."

  object_annotations = operation.results.annotation_results.first.object_annotations

  object_annotations.each do |object_annotation|
    puts "Entity description: #{object_annotation.entity.description}"
    puts "Entity id: #{object_annotation.entity.entity_id}" if object_annotation.entity.entity_id

    object_segment = object_annotation.segment
    start_time = (object_segment.start_time_offset.seconds +
                   object_segment.start_time_offset.nanos / 1e9)
    end_time =   (object_segment.end_time_offset.seconds +
                   object_segment.end_time_offset.nanos / 1e9)
    puts "Segment: #{start_time}s to #{end_time}s"

    puts "Confidence: #{object_annotation.confidence}"

    # Print information about the first frame of the segment.
    frame = object_annotation.frames.first
    box = frame.normalized_bounding_box

    time_offset = (frame.time_offset.seconds +
                    frame.time_offset.nanos / 1e9)
    puts "Time offset for the first frame: #{time_offset}s"

    puts "Bounding box position:"
    puts "\tleft  : #{box.left}"
    puts "\ttop   : #{box.top}"
    puts "\tright : #{box.right}"
    puts "\tbottom: #{box.bottom}\n"
  end
end

puts "Processing video for object tracking:"
operation.wait_until_done!

Request Object Tracking for Video from a Local File

The following samples demonstrate object tracking on a file stored locally.

REST & CMD LINE

Send the process request

To perform annotation on a local video file, base64-encode the contents of the video file. Include the base64-encoded contents in the inputContent field of the request. For information on how to base64-encode the contents of a video file, see Base64 Encoding.

The following shows how to send a POST request to the videos:annotate method. The example uses the access token for a service account set up for the project using the Cloud SDK. For instructions on installing the Cloud SDK, setting up a project with a service account, and obtaining an access token, see the Video Intelligence quickstart.

Before using any of the request data below, make the following replacements:

  • inputContent: base-64-encoded-content
    For example: "UklGRg41AwBBVkkgTElTVAwBAABoZHJsYXZpaDgAAAA1ggAAxPMBAAAAAAAQCAA..."

HTTP method and URL: 

POST https://videointelligence.googleapis.com/v1/videos:annotate

Request JSON body: 

{
  "inputContent": "base-64-encoded-content",
  "features": ["OBJECT_TRACKING"]
}

To send your request, expand one of these options:

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

If the request is successful, Video Intelligence the name for your operation. The following shows an example of such a response, where project-number is the number of your project and operation-id is the ID of the long-running operation created for the request.

Get the results

To get the results of your request, you must send a GET, using the operation name returned from the call to videos:annotate, as shown in the following example.

Before using any of the request data below, make the following replacements:

  • operation-name: the name of the operation as returned by the Video Intelligence API. The operation name has the format projects/project-number/locations/location-id/operations/operation-id

HTTP method and URL: 

GET https://videointelligence.googleapis.com/v1/operation-name

To send your request, expand one of these options:

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

C#

public static object TrackObject(string filePath)
{
    var client = VideoIntelligenceServiceClient.Create();
    var request = new AnnotateVideoRequest
    {
        InputContent = Google.Protobuf.ByteString.CopyFrom(File.ReadAllBytes(filePath)),
        Features = { Feature.ObjectTracking },
        // It is recommended to use location_id as 'us-east1' for the
        // best latency due to different types of processors used in
        // this region and others.
        LocationId = "us-east1"
    };

    Console.WriteLine("\nProcessing video for object annotations.");
    var op = client.AnnotateVideo(request).PollUntilCompleted();

    Console.WriteLine("\nFinished processing.\n");

    // Retrieve first result because a single video was processed.
    var objectAnnotations = op.Result.AnnotationResults[0]
                              .ObjectAnnotations;

    // Get only the first annotation for demo purposes
    var objAnnotation = objectAnnotations[0];

    Console.WriteLine(
        $"Entity description: {objAnnotation.Entity.Description}");

    if (objAnnotation.Entity.EntityId != null)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(
            $"Entity id: {objAnnotation.Entity.EntityId}");
    }

    Console.Write($"Segment: ");
    Console.WriteLine(
        String.Format("{0}s to {1}s",
                      objAnnotation.Segment.StartTimeOffset.Seconds +
                      objAnnotation.Segment.StartTimeOffset.Nanos / 1e9,
                      objAnnotation.Segment.EndTimeOffset.Seconds +
                      objAnnotation.Segment.EndTimeOffset.Nanos / 1e9));

    Console.WriteLine($"Confidence: {objAnnotation.Confidence}");

    // Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in this segment
    var frame = objAnnotation.Frames[0];
    var box = frame.NormalizedBoundingBox;
    Console.WriteLine(
        String.Format("Time offset of the first frame: {0}s",
                      frame.TimeOffset.Seconds +
                      frame.TimeOffset.Nanos / 1e9));
    Console.WriteLine("Bounding box positions:");
    Console.WriteLine($"\tleft   : {box.Left}");
    Console.WriteLine($"\ttop    : {box.Top}");
    Console.WriteLine($"\tright  : {box.Right}");
    Console.WriteLine($"\tbottom : {box.Bottom}");

    return 0;
}

Go


import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"

	video "cloud.google.com/go/videointelligence/apiv1"
	"github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes"
	videopb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/cloud/videointelligence/v1"
)

// objectTracking analyzes a video and extracts entities with their bounding boxes.
func objectTracking(w io.Writer, filename string) error {
	// filename := "resources/cat.mp4"

	ctx := context.Background()

	// Creates a client.
	client, err := video.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("video.NewClient: %v", err)
	}

	fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	op, err := client.AnnotateVideo(ctx, &videopb.AnnotateVideoRequest{
		InputContent: fileBytes,
		Features: []videopb.Feature{
			videopb.Feature_OBJECT_TRACKING,
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("AnnotateVideo: %v", err)
	}

	resp, err := op.Wait(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Wait: %v", err)
	}

	// Only one video was processed, so get the first result.
	result := resp.GetAnnotationResults()[0]

	for _, annotation := range result.ObjectAnnotations {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Description: %q\n", annotation.Entity.GetDescription())
		if len(annotation.Entity.EntityId) > 0 {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tEntity ID: %q\n", annotation.Entity.GetEntityId())
		}

		segment := annotation.GetSegment()
		start, _ := ptypes.Duration(segment.GetStartTimeOffset())
		end, _ := ptypes.Duration(segment.GetEndTimeOffset())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tSegment: %v to %v\n", start, end)

		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tConfidence: %f\n", annotation.GetConfidence())

		// Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in this segment.
		frame := annotation.GetFrames()[0]
		seconds := float32(frame.GetTimeOffset().GetSeconds())
		nanos := float32(frame.GetTimeOffset().GetNanos())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tTime offset of the first frame: %fs\n", seconds+nanos/1e9)

		box := frame.GetNormalizedBoundingBox()
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\tBounding box position:\n")
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\tleft  : %f\n", box.GetLeft())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\ttop   : %f\n", box.GetTop())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\tright : %f\n", box.GetRight())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t\tbottom: %f\n", box.GetBottom())
	}

	return nil
}

Java

/**
 * Track objects in a video.
 *
 * @param filePath the path to the video file to analyze.
 */
public static VideoAnnotationResults trackObjects(String filePath) throws Exception {
  try (VideoIntelligenceServiceClient client = VideoIntelligenceServiceClient.create()) {
    // Read file
    Path path = Paths.get(filePath);
    byte[] data = Files.readAllBytes(path);

    // Create the request
    AnnotateVideoRequest request = AnnotateVideoRequest.newBuilder()
        .setInputContent(ByteString.copyFrom(data))
        .addFeatures(Feature.OBJECT_TRACKING)
        .setLocationId("us-east1")
        .build();

    // asynchronously perform object tracking on videos
    OperationFuture<AnnotateVideoResponse, AnnotateVideoProgress> future =
        client.annotateVideoAsync(request);

    System.out.println("Waiting for operation to complete...");
    // The first result is retrieved because a single video was processed.
    AnnotateVideoResponse response = future.get(300, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    VideoAnnotationResults results = response.getAnnotationResults(0);

    // Get only the first annotation for demo purposes.
    ObjectTrackingAnnotation annotation = results.getObjectAnnotations(0);
    System.out.println("Confidence: " + annotation.getConfidence());

    if (annotation.hasEntity()) {
      Entity entity = annotation.getEntity();
      System.out.println("Entity description: " + entity.getDescription());
      System.out.println("Entity id:: " + entity.getEntityId());
    }

    if (annotation.hasSegment()) {
      VideoSegment videoSegment = annotation.getSegment();
      Duration startTimeOffset = videoSegment.getStartTimeOffset();
      Duration endTimeOffset = videoSegment.getEndTimeOffset();
      // Display the segment time in seconds, 1e9 converts nanos to seconds
      System.out.println(String.format(
          "Segment: %.2fs to %.2fs",
          startTimeOffset.getSeconds() + startTimeOffset.getNanos() / 1e9,
          endTimeOffset.getSeconds() + endTimeOffset.getNanos() / 1e9));
    }

    // Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in this segment.
    ObjectTrackingFrame frame = annotation.getFrames(0);
    // Display the offset time in seconds, 1e9 converts nanos to seconds
    Duration timeOffset = frame.getTimeOffset();
    System.out.println(String.format(
        "Time offset of the first frame: %.2fs",
        timeOffset.getSeconds() + timeOffset.getNanos() / 1e9));

    // Display the bounding box of the detected object
    NormalizedBoundingBox normalizedBoundingBox = frame.getNormalizedBoundingBox();
    System.out.println("Bounding box position:");
    System.out.println("\tleft: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getLeft());
    System.out.println("\ttop: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getTop());
    System.out.println("\tright: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getRight());
    System.out.println("\tbottom: " + normalizedBoundingBox.getBottom());
    return results;
  }
}

Node.js

// Imports the Google Cloud Video Intelligence library
const Video = require('@google-cloud/video-intelligence');
const fs = require('fs');
const util = require('util');
// Creates a client
const video = new Video.VideoIntelligenceServiceClient();
/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following line before running the sample.
 */
// const path = 'Local file to analyze, e.g. ./my-file.mp4';

// Reads a local video file and converts it to base64
const file = await util.promisify(fs.readFile)(path);
const inputContent = file.toString('base64');

const request = {
  inputContent: inputContent,
  features: ['OBJECT_TRACKING'],
  //recommended to use us-east1 for the best latency due to different types of processors used in this region and others
  locationId: 'us-east1',
};
// Detects objects in a video
const [operation] = await video.annotateVideo(request);
const results = await operation.promise();
console.log('Waiting for operation to complete...');
//Gets annotations for video
const annotations = results[0].annotationResults[0];
const objects = annotations.objectAnnotations;
objects.forEach(object => {
  console.log(`Entity description:  ${object.entity.description}`);
  console.log(`Entity id: ${object.entity.entityId}`);
  const time = object.segment;
  console.log(
    `Segment: ${time.startTimeOffset.seconds || 0}` +
      `.${(time.startTimeOffset.nanos / 1e6).toFixed(0)}s to ${time
        .endTimeOffset.seconds || 0}.` +
      `${(time.endTimeOffset.nanos / 1e6).toFixed(0)}s`
  );
  console.log(`Confidence: ${object.confidence}`);
  const frame = object.frames[0];
  const box = frame.normalizedBoundingBox;
  const timeOffset = frame.timeOffset;
  console.log(
    `Time offset for the first frame: ${timeOffset.seconds || 0}` +
      `.${(timeOffset.nanos / 1e6).toFixed(0)}s`
  );
  console.log(`Bounding box position:`);
  console.log(` left   :${box.left}`);
  console.log(` top    :${box.top}`);
  console.log(` right  :${box.right}`);
  console.log(` bottom :${box.bottom}`);
});

Python

"""Object tracking in a local video."""
from google.cloud import videointelligence

video_client = videointelligence.VideoIntelligenceServiceClient()
features = [videointelligence.enums.Feature.OBJECT_TRACKING]

with io.open(path, "rb") as file:
    input_content = file.read()

operation = video_client.annotate_video(
    input_content=input_content, features=features
)
print("\nProcessing video for object annotations.")

result = operation.result(timeout=300)
print("\nFinished processing.\n")

# The first result is retrieved because a single video was processed.
object_annotations = result.annotation_results[0].object_annotations

# Get only the first annotation for demo purposes.
object_annotation = object_annotations[0]
print("Entity description: {}".format(object_annotation.entity.description))
if object_annotation.entity.entity_id:
    print("Entity id: {}".format(object_annotation.entity.entity_id))

print(
    "Segment: {}s to {}s".format(
        object_annotation.segment.start_time_offset.seconds
        + object_annotation.segment.start_time_offset.nanos / 1e9,
        object_annotation.segment.end_time_offset.seconds
        + object_annotation.segment.end_time_offset.nanos / 1e9,
    )
)

print("Confidence: {}".format(object_annotation.confidence))

# Here we print only the bounding box of the first frame in this segment
frame = object_annotation.frames[0]
box = frame.normalized_bounding_box
print(
    "Time offset of the first frame: {}s".format(
        frame.time_offset.seconds + frame.time_offset.nanos / 1e9
    )
)
print("Bounding box position:")
print("\tleft  : {}".format(box.left))
print("\ttop   : {}".format(box.top))
print("\tright : {}".format(box.right))
print("\tbottom: {}".format(box.bottom))
print("\n")

Ruby

# "Path to a local video file: path/to/file.mp4"

require "google/cloud/video_intelligence"

video = Google::Cloud::VideoIntelligence.new

video_contents = File.binread path

# Register a callback during the method call
operation = video.annotate_video input_content: video_contents, features: [:OBJECT_TRACKING] do |operation|
  raise operation.results.message? if operation.error?
  puts "Finished Processing."

  object_annotations = operation.results.annotation_results.first.object_annotations

  object_annotations.each do |object_annotation|
    puts "Entity description: #{object_annotation.entity.description}"
    puts "Entity id: #{object_annotation.entity.entity_id}" if object_annotation.entity.entity_id

    object_segment = object_annotation.segment
    start_time = (object_segment.start_time_offset.seconds +
                   object_segment.start_time_offset.nanos / 1e9)
    end_time =   (object_segment.end_time_offset.seconds +
                   object_segment.end_time_offset.nanos / 1e9)
    puts "Segment: #{start_time}s to #{end_time}s"

    puts "Confidence: #{object_annotation.confidence}"

    # Print information about the first frame of the segment.
    frame = object_annotation.frames.first
    box = frame.normalized_bounding_box

    time_offset = (frame.time_offset.seconds +
                    frame.time_offset.nanos / 1e9)
    puts "Time offset for the first frame: #{time_offset}s"

    puts "Bounding box position:"
    puts "\tleft  : #{box.left}"
    puts "\ttop   : #{box.top}"
    puts "\tright : #{box.right}"
    puts "\tbottom: #{box.bottom}\n"
  end
end

puts "Processing video for object tracking:"
operation.wait_until_done!