Comment by true_religion

While it unfortunately didn't work in the consumer market, there's a space for video recognition in the business space:

- Scene finding for directors/news channels. AP and other sources have a lot of material but you pretty much literally have to watch the entire video in order to find a good scene.

- Scene finding for the XXX crowd. Very underserved market.

- Scene finding for police/lawyers. While it may seem like the opposite of 'privacy preserving', defense attorneys are literally just swamped with video evidence in an attempt to make them give up. Similarly if you're suing a big company for something as simple as an on the job injury or harassment, and need to prove there's a pattern of harm... they'll give you everything and let you do the work of finding out that there was a pattern of bad behavior.

It's the kind of thing that'd be useful as an open source solution... or failing that having a company which is 100% neutral in operation is also good.

I'm currently using Microsoft for something like this because they're absolution massive and apart from their OpenAI division, they only care that what you process is legal.