AI Video Search - Launched 8/28/2024

[Crease]

@Alejandro

Maybe something to do with a version of the AI which is capable to analyze the data in your device’s memory card also rather than the cloud only?

That was a question I had, too, because I imagine this isn’t currently possible.

@carverofchoice

I like your idea of it being able to analyze the local storage! That’s actually a brilliant idea!

I agree, and it made me think of this:

@carverofchoice

TECHNICALLY almost every Wyze camera has some degree of local/edge AI on them now (I think it was like 2.5yrs ago…but might’ve been 1.5yrs ago). The problem is that SOME of them have a low confidence interval because they are limited on how much of the model they can fit on the camera. So the confidence interval isn’t good enough to allow local AI detections on many of the cams by themselves, HOWEVER, what the lower confidence interval model can still do is quickly identify more likely detections and make that a priority for the cloud AI to analyze first, thus making notifications much FASTER than just waiting for the cloud to analyze every frame in order and then report when it finds something.

I wondered if a similar process might work this way:

1. The user (doing continuous microSD recording to a large card with events tagged in the recording timeline) submits a query to AI Video Search.
2. The Edge AI on the camera suggests candidate event recordings on local storage and submits these to Cloud AI asking for confirmation of a match.
3. Cloud AI analyzes them and lets the app know which events it “thinks” match the user’s request.
4. The app displays resulting thumbnails to the user to tap and review.

I don’t know if anything like that is technically feasible. I think what @carverofchoice suggested might be more realistic.

@carverofchoice

I think I might ask about this in the next AMA because that would be so awesome to implement if it is possible.

Yeah, definitely a good thing to ask about.