sentrysearch

Why we included this project

SentrySearch is for anyone who has spent hours scrubbing dashcam or security footage looking for one event. It splits video into overlapping chunks, embeds each one as a video via Google's Gemini Embedding API, Alibaba DashScope, or a local Qwen3-VL model, and keeps the vectors in a local ChromaDB index. Queries are plain text or an image, and the matching moment comes back as a trimmed clip. Cloud APIs are an option, but a fully local backend works without any API key, which suits footage you would rather not send anywhere. It can also surface the most anomalous clips when you don't know what to look for, and it connects to companion tools for stitching multi-camera footage and redacting sensitive frames.