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EVA Multimedia Database System

EVA is a database system tailored for video analytics -- think PostgreSQL for videos. It supports a SQL-like language for querying videos like:

examining the "emotion palette" of different actors
finding gameplays that lead to a touchdown in a football game

EVA comes with a wide range of commonly used computer vision models. It written in Python, and it is licensed under the Apache license.

If you are wondering why you might need a video database system, start with page on Video Database Systems. It describes how EVA lets users easily make use of deep learning models and how they can reduce money spent on inference on large image or video datasets.

The Getting Started page shows how you can use EVA for different computer vision tasks: image classification, object detection, action recognition, and how you can easily extend EVA to support your custom deep learning model in the form of user-defined functions.

The User Guides section contains Jupyter Notebooks that demonstrate how to use various features of EVA. Each notebook includes a link to Google Colab, where you can run the code by yourself.

Why EVA?

Easily combine SQL and Deep Learning to build next-generation database applications

Easily query videos in user-facing applications with a SQL-like interface for commonly used computer vision models.

Speed up queries and save money spent on model inference

EVA comes with a collection of built-in sampling, caching, and filtering optimizations inspired by time-tested relational database systems.

Extensible by design to support custom deep learning models

EVA has first-class support for user-defined functions that wrap around your deep learning models in PyTorch.

Quick Start

EVA supports Python versions 3.7 through 3.10. To install EVA, we recommend using the pip package manager.

pip install evadb

EVA works on Jupyter notebooks -- illustrative notebooks are available in the Tutorials folder. EVA adopts a client-server architecture and comes with a terminal-based client. To start the EVA server and a terminal-based client, use the following commands:

eva_server &   # launch server
eva_client     # launch client

Load a video onto the server using the client (we use ua_detrac.mp4 video as an example):

LOAD VIDEO "data/ua_detrac/ua_detrac.mp4" INTO MyVideo;

That's it! You can now start running queries over the loaded video:

SELECT id, data FROM MyVideo WHERE id < 5;

Search for frames in the video that contain a car

SELECT id, data FROM MyVideo WHERE ['car'] <@ FastRCNNObjectDetector(data).labels;

Source Video	Query Result

Search for frames in the video that contain a pedestrian and a car

SELECT id, data FROM MyVideo WHERE ['pedestrian', 'car'] <@ FastRCNNObjectDetector(data).labels;

Search for frames in the video with more than 3 cars

SELECT id, data FROM MyVideo WHERE Array_Count(FastRCNNObjectDetector(data).labels, 'car') > 3;

You can create a new user-defined function (UDF) that wraps around your custom vision model or an off-the-shelf model like FastRCNN:

CREATE UDF IF NOT EXISTS MyUDF
INPUT  (frame NDARRAY UINT8(3, ANYDIM, ANYDIM))
OUTPUT (labels NDARRAY STR(ANYDIM), bboxes NDARRAY FLOAT32(ANYDIM, 4),
        scores NDARRAY FLOAT32(ANYDIM))
TYPE  Classification
IMPL  'eva/udfs/fastrcnn_object_detector.py';

You can combine multiple user-defined functions in a single query to accomplish more complicated tasks.

   -- Analyse emotions of faces in a video
   SELECT id, bbox, EmotionDetector(Crop(data, bbox)) 
   FROM HAPPY JOIN LATERAL UNNEST(FaceDetector(data)) AS Face(bbox, conf)  
   WHERE id < 15;

Illustrative EVA Applications

🏝️ Traffic Analysis Application using Object Detection Model

Source Video	Query Result

🏝️ MNIST Digit Recognition using Image Classification Model

Source Video	Query Result

🏝️ Movie Analysis Application using Face Detection + Emotion Classfication Models

Source Video	Query Result

Community

Join the EVA community on Slack to ask questions and to share your ideas for improving EVA.

Contributing to EVA

To file a bug or request a feature, please use GitHub issues. Pull requests are welcome. For more information on installing from source and contributing to EVA, see our contributing guidelines.

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