How to Analyze and Classify Video with CLIP

James Gallagher's guide, published on July 20, 2023, provides a detailed walkthrough on using OpenAI's CLIP model in conjunction with the Roboflow Inference Server to analyze and classify video content. The process involves installing necessary dependencies, splitting videos into frames, and employing CLIP to categorize these frames based on defined prompts, such as identifying scenes with construction sites. The guide demonstrates how to determine if a video contains a specified scene, when it appears, and how long it lasts, acknowledging potential limitations like imprecise timestamps due to stride settings and the model's imperfections in scene interpretation. Gallagher suggests that if CLIP does not meet specific needs, creating a custom classification model with Roboflow might be beneficial, and he hints at an upcoming guide on object detection for more precise image analysis.