Learn how AI can sort through images and video to help you wrangle footage from protests and riots (NYT), analyze trends on TikTok (Washington Post), keep an eye on your local school board meetings (Hearst), measure the effects of congestion pricing (Bloomberg), and a hundred other tidbits for when the cameras might be rolling.
With a little Python and a dash of foundational knowledge, this session will tackle downloading videos, building and evaluating transcripts, splitting scenes, categorizing images, and detecting/counting/tracking objects.
Participants will get the most out of this session if they have a working knowledge of Python. To follow along, you should have Jupyter installed on your computer or a Google account to use Google Colab. Additional materials and installation tips will be available at https://github.com/jsoma/dataharvest25-ai-images-video
