Dexter

A novel, and fast search engine dedicated for video query.
This project is developed in collabration with Aditya Kuroodi and Joseph Ganley, original repo: akuroodi/Object-Detection

Overview

Dexter is powered by YOLOv4 and DeepSORT to label + track objects from video. It is then built atop Elasticsearch in order to enable fast queries over videos via a web interface. A high-level system diagram is shown below.

Detailed Design

Please see our co-authored paper.

Instructions for Demo

• Download and install Elasticsearch
• Start Elasticsearch: $ elasticsearch
• clone this repo and then: $ cd ./Dexter/elasticsearchScripts
• Initialize Elasticsearch: $ sh ./initIndex.sh
• Follow instructions in dexter-web to start Dexter web interface