Action recognition

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Action recognition identifies different actions from video clips, such as walking or dancing. Each of the actions may or may not be performed throughout the entire duration of the video.

Using an AutoML model

Before you begin

For background on creating an AutoML model, check out the Vertex AI Beginner's guide. For instructions on how to create your AutoML model, start with "Creating a dataset" using the console or api.

Use your AutoML model

The following code sample demonstrates how to use your AutoML model for action recognition using the streaming client library.

Python

import io

from google.cloud import videointelligence_v1p3beta1 as videointelligence

# path = 'path_to_file'
# project_id = 'project_id'
# model_id = 'automl_action_recognition_model_id'

client = videointelligence.StreamingVideoIntelligenceServiceClient()

model_path = "projects/{}/locations/us-central1/models/{}".format(
    project_id, model_id
)

automl_config = videointelligence.StreamingAutomlActionRecognitionConfig(
    model_name=model_path
)

video_config = videointelligence.StreamingVideoConfig(
    feature=videointelligence.StreamingFeature.STREAMING_AUTOML_ACTION_RECOGNITION,
    automl_action_recognition_config=automl_config,
)

# config_request should be the first in the stream of requests.
config_request = videointelligence.StreamingAnnotateVideoRequest(
    video_config=video_config
)

# Set the chunk size to 5MB (recommended less than 10MB).
chunk_size = 5 * 1024 * 1024

def stream_generator():
    yield config_request
    # Load file content.
    # Note: Input videos must have supported video codecs. See
    # https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/docs/streaming/streaming#supported_video_codecs
    # for more details.
    with io.open(path, "rb") as video_file:
        while True:
            data = video_file.read(chunk_size)
            if not data:
                break
            yield videointelligence.StreamingAnnotateVideoRequest(
                input_content=data
            )

requests = stream_generator()

# streaming_annotate_video returns a generator.
# The default timeout is about 300 seconds.
# To process longer videos it should be set to
# larger than the length (in seconds) of the video.
responses = client.streaming_annotate_video(requests, timeout=900)

# Each response corresponds to about 1 second of video.
for response in responses:
    # Check for errors.
    if response.error.message:
        print(response.error.message)
        break

    for label in response.annotation_results.label_annotations:
        for frame in label.frames:
            print(
                "At {:3d}s segment, {:5.1%} {}".format(
                    frame.time_offset.seconds,
                    frame.confidence,
                    label.entity.entity_id,
                )
            )