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> Is there really no other competitor or company that tried to tackle this problem in the past? Microsoft and Google already have very mature offerings in thi

> Is there really no other competitor or company that tried to tackle this problem in the past? Microsoft and Google already have very mature offerings in this space. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/#getting-started https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/#g...

mvoodarla 5y ago
It's a good point. While Microsoft and Google offer video processing / analysis, none of them are API-first in the same way we are. 1. We process videos, and can store their metadata / embeddings in perpetuity. This means a simple query API, don't worry about storing a DB of metadata yourself. 2. "Reverse Image Search" - Say a user cares about something specific, like a blue box that's toppled over. Using high-dimensional representations of certain frames in video, we can surface every time this scenario shows up in the future, based on a user having marked it as "interesting" in the past. 3. Our "killer" app is the video processing infra that's super modular. We give this flexibility to the full-stack dev to plug in their own models, or use ours. A final thing to note is that we're going after a completely different set of companies, specifically companies focused on building software for a specific industry (i.e. https://www.equipmentshare.com/ https://www.equipmentshare.com/) that eventually want to add video analytics as an offering. It's also unclear who Azure or GCP are targeting though it seems like it's for general media content.
- mandeepj 5y ago
  Thanks for the detailed response. I wish you all the luck in your journey. > 2. "Reverse Image Search" - Say a user cares about something specific, like a blue box that's toppled over. Using high-dimensional representations of certain frames in video, we can surface every time this scenario shows up in the future, based on a user having marked it as "interesting" in the past. I believe a lot of retail/consumer companies would be interested just in that. Example use case - restaurants trying to find repeat customers or gauging their mood before/after the meal.

mvoodarla 5y ago

It's a good point. While Microsoft and Google offer video processing / analysis, none of them are API-first in the same way we are. 1. We process videos, and can store their metadata / embeddings in perpetuity. This means a simple query API, don't worry about storing a DB of metadata yourself. 2. "Reverse Image Search" - Say a user cares about something specific, like a blue box that's toppled over. Using high-dimensional representations of certain frames in video, we can surface every time this scenario shows up in the future, based on a user having marked it as "interesting" in the past. 3. Our "killer" app is the video processing infra that's super modular. We give this flexibility to the full-stack dev to plug in their own models, or use ours. A final thing to note is that we're going after a completely different set of companies, specifically companies focused on building software for a specific industry (i.e. https://www.equipmentshare.com/ https://www.equipmentshare.com/) that eventually want to add video analytics as an offering. It's also unclear who Azure or GCP are targeting though it seems like it's for general media content.

mandeepj 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I wish you all the luck in your journey. > 2. "Reverse Image Search" - Say a user cares about something specific, like a blue box that's toppled over. Using high-dimensional representations of certain frames in video, we can surface every time this scenario shows up in the future, based on a user having marked it as "interesting" in the past. I believe a lot of retail/consumer companies would be interested just in that. Example use case - restaurants trying to find repeat customers or gauging their mood before/after the meal.