Join The Big Guy In Image Retrieval – Get A Video Indexer!

May 27th, 2009 by videoframecapture9


Everyone knows who Google is but do you know they have the best indexer as well? Google indexes the entire Internet including images. Since video is becoming so popular and your computer system is loaded with those videos you’re going to need a video indexer to keep them all organized.

Finding a needed video from an entire collection is shared by many professions including historians, journalists, engineers, medical, scientific and hobbyists. Their need is the same. They need to retrieve videos from a large collection. People from all walks of life including crime prevention, architecture, fashion and publishing use a video indexer to retrieve their videos.

Some indexers have features such as color, texture, and shape that can be queried and retrieved from video collections. There are some videos that are harder to search through to find that one video clip, such as when a crime is committed. Police investigators sometimes search through hundreds of videos looking for a suspect. Using an indexer makes it all very easy.

Think about the many thousands of video clips used in the movie industry. They use stock videos for every movie they make and someone has to find that one-shot they need to use. It would take years if they had to manually go through every video clip to find on that they wanted to use in a film. That’s why they have a video indexer.

Most videos are stored, transmitted and displayed for recreational use but some are also used to analyze a tennis players shot or watching the latest soap opera. Most video indexer can retrieve a clip based on image, parsing, or keyframes. When a television station need to show a video clip an indexer helps when they have to skim through hundreds of clips looking for one in particular.

A video indexer will make a copy of a frame and store it so you can instantly know what the video is about. If you use a video indexer on regular bases then your whole collection will be easy to access.