dominikwin
Joined 1 year ago
Joined 1 year ago
1) If you are running models you can use vidformer to see the results as they come in, essentially streaming annotated videos to your web browser as your model runs. 2) If you have existing inference results you can practically instantly render those on videos, then you can iterate or remix in seconds. 3) If you're hosting any infrastructure you can expose VOD streams publicly to show annotated videos to web clients. For example, it's trivial to build a video search engine which returns compilations.
A good chunk of OpenCV imgproc is implemented, but it can go beyond that. Vidformer can be applied to any function which returns or manipulates frames (transformation), but not functions which return data. So not yolo, but things like canny edge detection would work just fine. It's impossible to accelerate all processing tasks, so we focus on the "video transformation" subset used to create videos.
I'm not sure vidformer is a great fit for this task, at least in that way. It's better at creating and serving video results, not so much at processing. However, the data model does allow for something similar. You can take a video and serve a vidformer VOD stream on top, and as segments are requested it can run the model on those segments. Essentially you can run CV models as you watch the video. Some of this code is still WIP though.