Large scale video analytics architecture

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to:
• split a video file into a plurality of chunks respectively comprising unstructured video data, wherein to split the video file into the plurality of chunks comprises in the event that a boundary corresponding to at least one of the plurality of chunks does not conform to a Group of Pictures boundary associated with a first Group of Pictures, sending a first subset of one or more frames corresponding to the first Group of Pictures to a processor that is to process a second subset of one or more frames corresponding to the first Group of Pictures;
• process at least a subset of the chunks in parallel, including by detecting one or more moving objects and computing for each detected moving object a visual key and an associated attribute value, wherein the attribute value comprises one or more of a set of one or more coordinates indicating a geo-location corresponding to a location of the moving object in an image frame with which a key-value pair is associated and a timestamp associated with the image frame with which the key-value pair is associated;
• provide the visual key and the associated attribute value as output;
• and
• store, in a database, the visual key and the associated attribute value as structured information in a searchable format.

A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

• splitting a video file into a plurality of chunks respectively comprising unstructured video data, wherein the splitting the video file into the plurality of chunks comprises in the event that a boundary corresponding to at least one of the plurality of chunks does not conform to a Group of Pictures boundary associated with a first Group of Pictures, sending a first subset of one or more frames corresponding to the first Group of Pictures to a processor that is to process a second subset of one or more frames corresponding to the first Group of Pictures;
• processing at least a subset of the chunks in parallel, including by detecting one or more moving objects and computing for each detected moving object a visual key and an associated attribute value, wherein the attribute value comprises one or more of a set of one or more coordinates indicating a geo-location corresponding to a location of the moving object in an image frame with which a key-value pair is associated and a timestamp associated with the image frame with which the key-value pair is associated;
• providing the visual key and the associated attribute value as output;
• and
• store, in a database, the visual key and the associated attribute value as structured information in a searchable format.