Vertex AI Vision release notes

This page documents production updates to Vertex AI Vision. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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July 14, 2024

Model output visualization tool in vaictl

You can now visualize model output using the vaictl command line tool available through the Vertex AI Vision SDK. This visualization combines real-time video streams with annotations and statistics generated by Vertex AI Vision models. This feature lets you better understand model output by visualizing output information over your video stream.

Features:

  • Visualize command added to vaictl command-line tool.
  • Support added to visualize Occupancy Analytics model annotations.

For more information, see Visualize model output.

Motion filtering - motion detection zone

You can now specify zones for motion detection, or areas to omit from motion detection. For more information, see the motion filtering guide.

November 15, 2023

Batch video and image support in Vertex AI Vision Warehouse is Generally Available. Vertex AI Vision Warehouse now supports semantic searches and similarity searches on video and images. For more information, see Vision Warehouse overview

May 26, 2023

Image batch processing now available as a Preview feature

Vertex AI Vision now offers batch image processing as a Preview feature. This new processing mode lets you provide a Cloud Storage path with image files as input and Cloud Storage path to store output batch processing results.

For more information, see the image batch processing documentation.

Python SDK now available

A new Python SDK is now available for Vertex AI Vision. For more information, see the following documentation pages:

May 02, 2023

Updated pricing structure begins

Vertex AI Vision functionality is now available under an updated billing framework and discounting schedule. See the pricing page for more information.

March 22, 2023

Model event management with Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub

The Vertex AI Vision event management feature lets you generate and send event notifications through Pub/Sub topics by:

  • Enabling supported models* to output to Cloud Function for data processing and events generation.
  • In-product support to send generated event to configured Pub/Sub topics.
  • An easy configuration of the event management system in the Vertex AI Vision Studio.

* GA event management is available for the following models:

  • Occupancy analytics pre-trained model
  • Vertex AI custom-trained models imported into a Vertex AI Vision application

For more information, see the Enable model event notification with Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub.

December 07, 2022

Generally available: Vertex AI Vision is now Generally Available. View pricing details at the Vertex AI Vision pricing page.

For more information, see the Vertex AI Vision documentation.

October 11, 2022

Preview: Vertex AI Vision is now available as a Preview product.

For more information, see the Vertex AI Vision documentation.