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Life & fun · January 4, 2023

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Semantic search for video

Hello HN Over the New Year's break, I created semanticvideosearch.com. This can search any video based on meaning and context. I would love to get your feedback on it. What should I change and what can be improved? The preprocessed videos can be search very quickly, while the youtube video links take some time (yt videos also have a upper duration limit due to compute issues). I intend to add search based on the frames of the video soon. I would love to know your thoughts on the demo and any suggestions for improvements. Thanks! PS: the inspiration to create this was to get the 2 mins of…

Semantic search for video launched on January 4, 2023 with 77 votes, #711 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Semantic Search for Video is a tool that searches videos by meaning and context rather than keywords. It works with both preprocessed videos and YouTube links, though YouTube processing is slower and limited by video length. The tool is designed to help users quickly locate specific content within videos without watching entire files. Frame-based search is planned as a future feature.

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Hello HN Over the New Year's break, I created semanticvideosearch.com. This can search any video based on meaning and context. I would love to get your feedback on it. What should I change and what can be improved? The preprocessed videos can be search very quickly, while the youtube video links take some time (yt…

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