VideoTimeSeries

As of Version 12.2, VideoTimeSeries has been superseded by VideoMapTimeSeries.

VideoTimeSeries[f,video]

applies f to each frame of the Video object video, returning a time series.

VideoTimeSeries[f,video,n]

applies f to overlapping partitions of n video frames.

VideoTimeSeries[f,video,n,d]

applies f to partitions with offset d.

Details

  • VideoTimeSeries can be used to detect temporal or spatial events in videos, such as object detection, motion detection or activity recognition.
  • VideoTimeSeries returns a TimeSeries whose values are the results of f applied to each video frame or partition of video frames. The times are the timestamps of the corresponding frame or partition.
  • Frame variables n and d can be given as a scalar specifying the number of frames or a time Quantity object.
  • VideoTimeSeries supports video containers and codecs specified by $VideoDecoders.
  • The following options can be given:
  • AlignmentCenteralignment of the timestamps with partitions
    MetaInformationNoneinclude additional metainformation
    MissingDataMethodNonemethod to use for missing values
    ResamplingMethod"Interpolation"the method to use for resampling paths

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Compute the mean of the RGB colors for every video frame and plot them:

Compute image distance between consecutive frames:

Plot the result, showing times with significant scene change:

Applications  (2)

Find portions of a video with constant images:

Define a function to detect whether an image has constant pixel values:

Apply the function to each frame and plot the result:

Count the number of cars in each frame:

Possible Issues  (1)

When the function returns a list, all lists should have similar dimensions:

Pad or trim the resulting lists to the same size to store them in the TimeSeries:

Results may also be wrapped into other containers before being stored in a TimeSeries:

Wolfram Research (2020), VideoTimeSeries, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VideoTimeSeries.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2020), VideoTimeSeries, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VideoTimeSeries.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2020. "VideoTimeSeries." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VideoTimeSeries.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2020). VideoTimeSeries. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VideoTimeSeries.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_videotimeseries, author="Wolfram Research", title="{VideoTimeSeries}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VideoTimeSeries.html}", note=[Accessed: 23-February-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_videotimeseries, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={VideoTimeSeries}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VideoTimeSeries.html}, note=[Accessed: 23-February-2025 ]}