Google Video Intelligence API is one of the machine learning services exposed under the Cloud AI vertical. This service is used to analyze a video and its contents using machine learning models.

This service can:

• Gather insights from 20,000 labels
• Search video catalogues
• Distinguish scenes using shot detection

Some of the best use cases for this API are:

• Content recommendation
• Content moderation
• Contextual advertisements
• Searchable media archives

Using this API, we can detect the following:

• Label detection: From a given video, identify various items/things present in the video
• Explicit Content Detection: Detect adult content in a video, along with the position of occurance
• Shot Change detection: Detect scene changes in a video
• Video Transcription ^ALPHA: Transcribe the video content into English