Semantic Video Search with Open-Source LLMs on AWS
This AWS blog post details a novel approach to semantic video search leveraging open-source Large Vision Models (LVMs) like CLIP, OpenCLIP, and SigLIP on Amazon SageMaker and OpenSearch Serverless. The solution addresses the growing need for efficient video content retrieval using natural language or image queries. The core functionality involves an offline indexing pipeline and an online search logic. The indexing pipeline preprocesses videos, extracts frames, generates frame embeddings using the LVM, applies temporal smoothing for context, and ingests these embeddings into an OpenSearch Serverless vector index. The online search accepts textual or visual queries, generates embeddings, performs a k-nearest neighbors search on the index, and applies temporal clustering to return semantically coherent video segments. Both asynchronous (for indexing) and real-time (for search) SageMaker endpoints are utilized for optimal performance and cost efficiency. The solution showcases hybrid search capabilities, combining text and image queries, and offers parameters for adjusting sampling rate, smoothing, and search size to fine-tune results. The blog post includes a GitHub repository with code, setup instructions, and examples using sample videos. While offering a powerful and flexible solution, the approach has limitations: video quality and resolution impact accuracy, small or fast-moving objects pose challenges, and comprehensive performance evaluation requires ground truth data. The target audience includes developers, data scientists, and businesses managing large video archives seeking to implement efficient and scalable semantic video search capabilities. The solution’s key benefit is its ability to perform zero-shot semantic search, eliminating the need for model retraining for various video types. This is achieved through the use of pre-trained multimodal LVMs capable of understanding both visual and textual information.
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