AI for Video Analytics: powering your business with Azure Video Retrieval & Summary and Azure Video Indexer.

In an increasingly competitive digital environment, the volume of video content continues to grow exponentially. How can we leverage these audiovisual resources to make more agile decisions, improve customer experience and optimize our business processes? Two Microsoft Azure services offer powerful answers:

1. Video Retrieval and Summary

2. Video Indexer

Both solutions are designed to quickly analyze large volumes of video content and extract insights without the need to manually review all the material. However, each is suited to different levels of depth and use cases. In this article, we’ll show you how to get the most out of them and how their implementation can drive efficiency in your operations.

1. Azure Video Retrieval and Summary: Searching for Key Moments

1.1. Why should you care?

When we talk about Video Retrieval and Summary, we think of agile searches and automated summaries. Imagine you need to review hours of recordings (such as training sessions, product presentations or security material) but you are only interested in certain fragments or keywords. This service is in preview and specializes in:

  • Finding relevant moments by using natural language.
  • Generating summaries that condense the highlights of each video.

1.2. Main business use cases

  • Training and education: Quickly locate topics of interest in long lectures and generate a summary so that employees can review the content without investing too much time.
  • Marketing and sales: Extract customer testimonials, snippets with brand mentions or specific product demonstrations for use in advertising campaigns.
  • Supervision in retail environments In a supermarket, AI can quickly detect spills or accidents on the floor, alerting staff for immediate cleanup and preventing fall hazards.
  • Safety and security: thanks to this service, identify behaviors that violate rules and trigger safety alerts.
  • Construction or industrial environments: Video analysis helps to verify the correct use of safety clothing (e.g. helmets or reflective vests) and to detect unauthorized access to restricted areas.

2. Azure Video Indexer: Comprehensive Analysis

2.1. Why should you be interested?

If your business requires a more advanced level of understanding of audiovisual content, Azure Video Indexer is the perfect tool. With dozens of models ranging from object detection to facial recognition, it offers a detailed analysis that allows you to organize, classify and draw conclusions from large libraries of video.

2.2. Main functionalities

Azure Video Indexer combines multiple AI capabilities oriented to both audio and visuals. On the one hand, it analyzes multiple languages and is responsible for generating subtitles, detecting sound effects and automatically transcribing the voice, while analyzing the emotional charge of the speech and identifying keywords and relevant entities. In this way, companies can extract insights about the subject matter, the tone of a conversation and the presence of important mentions, optimizing the classification of their content.

On the other hand, it offers analysis of visual elements that allow detecting faces, including celebrities and custom faces, locating objects, extracting text that appears on screen and identifying key frames to facilitate video editing and summarizing.

It also supports integration with Azure OpenAI GPT models that allow us to generate summaries of videos and run more complex searches.

2.3. Highlighted use cases

  • Media and Entertainment: Index series, movies and programs to identify actors, scenes or sponsoring brands.
  • Media: Index newscasts, programs and documentaries, assign categories, detect public personalities and generate archives ready for consultation.
  • Retail and merchandising: Detect the presence of products and brands in store surveillance videos or commercials to optimize display strategies.
  • Human resources: Analyze video interviews to detect keywords, emotions and segment relevant parts in recruitment processes.

Which one to choose?

  • If your priority is to locate key moments and generate summaries quickly, Video Retrieval and Summary will give you the agility you need.
  • If you want to go deeper into detecting faces, objects, emotions and other metadata for a comprehensive video strategy, Video Indexer offers a more extensive set of models.

¿How Bravent can help you?

At Bravent, we offer you our expertise in the implementation of cloud-based solutions and Microsoft Azure AI. Our focus is on optimizing processes and obtaining tangible results for your company:

  1. Specialized consulting: we analyze your business needs and define the most appropriate solution.
  2. Technology integration: We connect Azure services with your current systems to achieve a smooth and efficient workflow.
  3. Training and support: Training your team in the use of the tools and continuous support to ensure the success of the solution.

Videos are an essential resource in today’s business world. However, the true potential of this content is only unlocked when we can quickly find, summarize and analyze the information they contain. Azure Video Retrieval and Summary and Azure Video Indexer represent two complementary approaches that cater to different levels of depth and business objectives.

Ready to take your video analytics to the next level? At Bravent we are ready to walk you through every step, from strategy definition to implementation and ongoing support. Contact us and find out how AI can transform the way you manage your audiovisual assets!

For more details, you can contact us at Info@bravent.net