Image and Video Processing
This section shows which Media Server features are supported for different types of media.
- Image includes single image files and images that are extracted from documents such as PDF files.
- Video includes video files and video streams.
| Analysis | Image | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Face detection, recognition, and demographics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optical Character Recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image classification | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object class recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Number plate recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vehicle make and model recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clothing color analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scene analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Keyframe extraction | ✗ | ✓ |
| Image comparison | ✓ | ✓ |
| Color clustering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Barcode recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
| Video matching | ✗ | ✓ |
| Visual clustering | ✗ | ✓ |
| Image hash generation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio analysis (audio categorization, language identification, speaker identification, speech-to-text, audio matching) | ✗ | ✓ |
| News segmentation | ✗ | ✓ |
| Encoding | Image | Video |
| Clip Encoder | ✗ | ✓ |
| Evidential Rolling Buffer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Image Encoder | ✓ | ✓ |
| MJPEG Encoder | ✗ | ✓ |
| MPEG Encoder (to file or UDP stream) | ✗ | ✓ |
| PDF Encoder | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rolling Buffer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Event Stream Processing | Image | Video |
| Filter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Combine | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deduplicate | ✓ | ✓ |
| And | ✓ | ✓ |
| AndThen | ✗ | ✓ |
| AndAny | ✓ | ✓ |
| AndThenAny | ✗ | ✓ |
| AndNot | ✓ | ✓ |
| AndNotThen | ✗ | ✓ |
| Or | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transformation | Image | Video |
| Audio Redaction | ✗ | ✓ |
| Blur | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crop | ✓ | ✓ |
| Draw | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| Overlay | ✗ | ✓ |
| Rotate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scale | ✓ | ✓ |
| Set Rectangle | ✓ | ✓ |
| Utilities | Image | Video |
| Count | ✗ | ✓ |
| Heatmap | ✗ | ✓ |
| Output | Image | Video |
| ACI Response | ✓ | ✓ |
| Files on disk | ✓ | ✓ |
| Connector Framework Server | ✓ | ✓ |
| IDOL (Knowledge Discovery Content component) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vertica | ✓ | ✓ |
| ODBC database | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTTP POST | ✓ | ✓ |
| Milestone XProtect | ✗ | ✓ |