NVIDIA AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization (VSS) v3.1.0 Early Access is publicly available

Hello Developers!

We recently released VSS 3.1.0 Early Access which contains the following updates:

  • Deliver Real-Time Video Intelligence – accelerated vision AI microservices - fast, feature extraction and visual understanding:

    • Feature extraction with embedding models

      • Image: C-RADIO, SigLIP2

      • Video: Cosmos Embed

    • Object detection & tracking models: RT-DETR, GDINO, Sparse4D

    • VLM-powered alerts & dense captions: Cosmos Reason 2, Qwen 3.5, other VLM NIMs, OpenAI APIs Compatibilityle

  • Agentic Search (Alpha feature)

    • Search for actions and temporal activities based on video embeddings, as well as object attributes through image embeddings.

    • Breakdown queries, search across multiple embedding spaces, answer fusion, and VLM-based reflection.

  • Faster time to solution with an easy-to-customize modular blueprint.

    • Gives developers maximum flexibility and scalability to customize VSS for their use case. Includes a base configuration and 4 add-on agent workflows.

    • Base configuration deploys in less than 5 minutes - 4x faster than previous versions.

    • Report generation workflow: Automatically creates reports based on customizable templates.

    • Long video summarization workflow: Generates concise overview of hour-long videos with time-stamped events

    • Real-time alerts workflow: Uses a VLM to generate alerts that provide the needed details for action

    • Alert verification workflow: Uses a VLM to review and verify CV alerts to eliminate false positives

    • Search workflow: Search stored and streamed video using natural language prompts for actions, events, and attributes.

  • Two scalable examples for smart cities and warehouse safety.

    • Optimized reference workflows with example data, use case specific prompts and report templates
  • Expanded platform support

    • DGX Spark and AGX/IGX Thor now support based VSS configurations for, real-time alerts and verification agents

The latest updates are available on the VSS GitHub Repository and documentation. Happy developing and we would love to hear your feedback!