9 comments

  • mdrzn 1 hour ago
    Very interesting (not for a dashcam, but for home monitoring).
  • kamranjon 14 minutes ago
    Does anyone know of an open weights models that can embed video? Would love to experiment locally with this.
  • emsign 35 minutes ago
    Where is the Exit to this dystopia?
    • BrokenCogs 19 minutes ago
      The Matrix style human pods: we live in blissful ignorance in the Matrix, while the LLMs extract more and more compute power from us so some CEO somewhere can claim they have now replaced all humans with machines in their business.
      • throwup238 5 minutes ago
        I was thinking more of the season 3 episode of Doctor Who titled Gridlock where everyone lives in flying cars circling a giant expressway underground, while all the upper class people on the surface died years ago from a pandemic.
  • SpaceManNabs 7 minutes ago
    > No transcription, no frame captioning, no intermediate text.

    If there is text on the video (like a caption or wtv), will the embedding capture that? Never thought about this before.

    If the video has audio, does the embedding capture that too?

  • ygouzerh 1 hour ago
    That's quite interesting, well done! I haven't thought of this use case for embeddings. It open the door to quite many potential applications!
    • stavros 58 minutes ago
      Man, the surveillance applications for this are staggering.
  • 7777777phil 32 minutes ago
    Today I learned that Gemini can now natively embed video..

    Cool Project, thanks for sharing!

  • dev_tools_lab 1 hour ago
    Nice use of native video embedding. How do you handle cases where Gemini's response confidence is low? Do you have a fallback or threshold?
    • sohamrj 55 minutes ago
      as of now, no threshold but that is planned in the future.

      for example, for now if i search "cybertruck" in my indexed dashcam footage, i don't have any cybertrucks in my footage, so it'll return a clip of the next best match which is a big truck, but not a cybertruck

  • Aeroi 57 minutes ago
    very cool, anybody have apparent use cases for this?
    • giozaarour 16 minutes ago
      I think a good use case would be searching for certain products or videos across social media (TikTok and Instagram). especially useful for shopping, maybe
      • vidarh 3 minutes ago
        Branding/marketing monitoring companies would be all over this.
    • sohamrj 43 minutes ago
      dashcam and home security footage are the 2 main ones i can think of.

      a bit expensive right now so it's not as practical at scale. but once the embedding model comes out of public preview, and we hopefully get a local equivalent, this will be a lot more practical.

    • hebelehubele 31 minutes ago
      State surveillance
  • klntsky 1 hour ago
    why not skip the text conversion? is it usable at all?
    • sohamrj 1 hour ago
      gemini embedding 2 converts straight video to vectors. in this case, dashcam clips don't have audio to transcribe and even if they did, it would be useless in the search
      • password4321 35 minutes ago
        What are the SoA audio models right now?