Optimize vid_vec_rep_clip operator for long videos and add profiling …

operators/vid_vec_rep_clip/OPTIMIZATION_NOTES.md

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+# Optimization Notes for `vid_vec_rep_clip`
+
+## **Problem Statement**
+The current implementation of the `vid_vec_rep_clip` operator lacks support for processing longer videos efficiently and reliably. Specifically, we wanted to investigate:
+- Can the operator process longer videos (1min to 1hr) without breaking or exhausting system resources?
+- Is the model itself a bottleneck, or is the limitation due to code inefficiencies?
+- How does the operator perform in terms of CPU and memory usage for large video inputs?
+
+## **Goals**
+- Determine if the operator can process videos of varying lengths (1, 5, 10, 20, 30, 45, 60 mins).
+- Profile memory and CPU usage during execution.
+- Fix inefficiencies (if any) in the original implementation.
+- Ensure output vector correctness post-refactor.
+
+## Findings from Original Implementation
+
+![alt text](image.png)
+**Inconsistencies:** Memory usage for the 60-min video is unexpectedly lower than for the 30-min video, suggesting inefficient memory handling or potential leaks in intermediate steps.
+
+## Results After Refactor
+
+![alt text](<Screenshot 2025-05-02 at 6.12.31 AM.png>)
+_Note: Longer videos show memory increase due to more efficient baseline measurement._
+
+## Performance Comparison
+
+### Memory-Optimized vs Original Implementation
+![alt text](<Screenshot 2025-05-02 at 6.12.44 AM.png>)
+
+### Memory Optimization Highlights:
+- 81% reduction for 30-minute videos (1917MB → 365MB)
+
+- 73.7% savings for 10-minute videos (1858MB → 488MB)
+
+- More stable memory profile across all durations.
+
+### Processing Tradeoffs:
+- 37-121% longer processing for videos ≤30 minutes.
+
+- 14-22% faster for very long videos (>45 minutes)
+
+- More accurate performance measurements
+
+## Key Improvements
+
+### Efficient I-Frame Sampling
+- Switched to extracting only I-frames using `ffmpeg`, reducing unnecessary frame processing and improving memory efficiency.
+
+### Built-in Memory Profiling:
+- Integrated `psutil` and `tracemalloc` to monitor memory usage before and after processing.
+
+- Reports net memory change, helping diagnose scaling issues.
+
+### Scalable to Long Videos:
+- Successfully tested on videos up to 1 hour, showing stable memory growth.
+
+- Reports net memory change, helping diagnose scaling issues.
+
+### Enhanced Test Coverage:
+- Includes test cases for:
+    - Local long videos (e.g., 1 hr)
+    - Sample short videos
+    - Remote video URLs
+
+## Summary of Changes
+
+This PR introduces the following enhancements to the `vid_vec_rep_clip` operator:
+
+1.  #### I-Frame Sampling Strategy: 
+    Instead of decoding every frame or relying on precomputed metadata, the updated operator uses `ffmpeg` to extract only **I-frames** for vector representation. This reduces redundancy and improves scalability.
+
+2.  #### Streaming Feature Extraction: 
+    Frames are now loaded and processed in a streaming manner (one at a time) using temporary storage, preventing memory bloat.
+
+3.  #### Detailed Profiling Added to Tests:
+
+    The `unittest` suite has been enhanced to capture:
+    - Memory usage before/after processing
+    - Net memory consumption
+    - CPU time and usage
+    - Peak memory (from `tracemalloc`)
+    - Total I-frames and vectors generated
+
+4.  #### Average Vector Addition:
+    The final output includes a mean vector of all I-frame features, maintaining consistency with prior behavior.
+
+
+## 📌 Limitations
+- **I-Frame Distribution:** The number of I-frames is determined by video encoding, so a shorter video could occasionally have more I-frames than a longer one. This is expected and valid behavior.
+
+- **Processing Time:** The new implementation may take slightly longer for short videos due to I-frame extraction overhead, but this tradeoff is acceptable given the lower memory usage and improved scalability.
+
+- **No Parallelism Yet:** Current implementation processes frames sequentially. There’s room for future speedup via batching or multithreading.
+
+## Checklist
+
+- ✅ Code handles long videos (1 min to 1 hour)
+- ✅ Memory and CPU profiling included
+- ✅ Documented tradeoffs (time vs. memory)
+- ✅ Old and new results clearly documented
+- ✅ Known limitations acknowledged
+

operators/vid_vec_rep_clip/test.py

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 import unittest
 from unittest.case import skip
-
+import os
+import tracemalloc
+import psutil
 from feluda.models.media_factory import VideoFactory
 from operators.vid_vec_rep_clip import vid_vec_rep_clip
-
-
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
 class Test(unittest.TestCase):
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
@@ -20,16 +22,56 @@ def tearDownClass(cls):
     @skip
     def test_sample_video_from_disk(self):
         video_path = VideoFactory.make_from_file_on_disk(
-            r"core/operators/sample_data/sample-cat-video.mp4"
+            r"core/operators/sample_data/my_10min_video.mp4"
         )
         result = vid_vec_rep_clip.run(video_path)
         for vec in result:
             self.assertEqual(len(vec.get("vid_vec")), 512)
 
+    def test_large_video_profile(self):
+
+        rel_path = "5_min_video.mp4"  # just the file name
+        abs_path = os.path.abspath(rel_path)
+        video_path = VideoFactory.make_from_file_on_disk(abs_path)
+
+        # Start CPU tracking (using psutil)
+        process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
+        mem_before = process.memory_info().rss / 1024 / 1024  # in MB
+        cpu_times_before = process.cpu_times()
+        start = time.time()
+
+        result = vid_vec_rep_clip.run(video_path)
+        end_time = time.time()
+        cpu_end = process.cpu_times()
+
+        # Stop memory tracking and get the current and peak memory usage
+        current, peak = tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()
+        tracemalloc.stop()
+
+
+        count = 0
+        for vec in result:
+            self.assertEqual(len(vec.get("vid_vec")), 512)
+            count += 1
+
+        end = time.time()
+        mem_after = process.memory_info().rss / 1024 / 1024
+        cpu_times_after = process.cpu_times()
+
+        print(f"Total I-frame vectors: {count - 1}")
+        print(f"Average vector included: True")
+        print(f"Total vectors generated (incl. avg): {count}")
+        print(f"Memory before processing: {mem_before:.2f} MB")
+        print(f"Memory after processing: {mem_after:.2f} MB")
+        print(f"Net memory change (test-side): {mem_after - mem_before:+.2f} MB")
+        print(f"CPU time used (user + system): {(cpu_times_after.user + cpu_times_after.system) - (cpu_times_before.user + cpu_times_before.system):.2f} seconds")
+        print(f"Processing time: {end - start:.2f} seconds")
+
     # @skip
     def test_sample_video_from_url(self):
         video_url = "https://tattle-media.s3.amazonaws.com/test-data/tattle-search/cat_vid_2mb.mp4"
         video_path = VideoFactory.make_from_url(video_url)
         result = vid_vec_rep_clip.run(video_path)
         for vec in result:
             self.assertEqual(len(vec.get("vid_vec")), 512)
+

operators/vid_vec_rep_clip/vid_vec_rep_clip.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 """
 Operator to extract video vector representations using CLIP-ViT-B-32.
 """
-
-
+import psutil
+import time
 def initialize(param):
     """
     Initializes the operator.
@@ -18,13 +18,12 @@ def initialize(param):
     import os
     import subprocess
     import tempfile
-
     import torch
     from PIL import Image
     from transformers import AutoProcessor, CLIPModel
 
     # Load the model and processor
-    processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")
+    processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32", use_fast=True)
     model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")
 
     # Set the device
@@ -60,16 +59,20 @@ class VideoAnalyzer:
         A class for video feature extraction.
         """
 
-        def __init__(self, fname):
+        def __init__(self, fname, frame_sample_rate=1):
             """
             Constructor for the `VideoAnalyzer` class.
 
             Args:
                 fname (str): Path to the video file
+                frame_sample_rate (int): Sample every Nth I-frame
             """
             self.model = model
             self.device = device
-            self.frame_images = []
+            self.processor = processor
+            self.frame_sample_rate = frame_sample_rate
+
+            self.fname = fname
             self.feature_matrix = []
             self.analyze(fname)
 
@@ -90,81 +93,72 @@ def analyze(self, fname):
             Raises:
                 FileNotFoundError: If the file is not found
             """
-            # check if file exists
             if not os.path.exists(fname):
                 raise FileNotFoundError(f"File not found: {fname}")
 
-            # Extract I-frames and features
-            self.frame_images = self.extract_frames(fname)
-            self.feature_matrix = self.extract_features(self.frame_images)
+            print(f"Analyzing video: {fname}")
 
-        def extract_frames(self, fname):
-            """
-            Extracts I-frames from the video file using `ffmpeg`.
+            process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
+            cpu_before = process.cpu_percent(interval=1.0)
+            mem_before = process.memory_info().rss / (1024 * 1024)
 
-            Args:
-                fname (str): Path to the video file
+            start_time = time.time()
+            self.feature_matrix = self.extract_features_streaming(fname)
+            end_time = time.time()
 
-            Returns:
-                list: List of PIL Images
-            """
+            mem_after = process.memory_info().rss / (1024 * 1024)
+            cpu_after = process.cpu_percent(interval=1.0)
+
+            print(f"Total vectors generated: {len(self.feature_matrix)}")
+            print(f"Peak memory usage: {mem_after - mem_before:.2f} MB")
+            print(f"CPU usage before processing: {cpu_before:.1f}%")
+            print(f"CPU usage after processing: {cpu_after:.1f}%")
+            print(f"Processing time: {end_time - start_time:.2f} seconds")
+
+        def extract_features_streaming(self, fname):
+            feature_list = []
             with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
-                # Command to extract I-frames using ffmpeg's command line tool
                 cmd = f"""
-                ffmpeg -i "{fname}" -vf "select=eq(pict_type\,I)" -vsync vfr "{temp_dir}/frame_%05d.jpg"
+                ffmpeg -i \"{fname}\" -vf \"select=eq(pict_type\\,I)\" -vsync vfr \"{temp_dir}/frame_%05d.jpg\"
                 """
-                with subprocess.Popen(
-                    cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE
-                ) as process:
-                    process.wait()
-                frames = []
-                for filename in os.listdir(temp_dir):
-                    if filename.endswith((".jpg")):
-                        image_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, filename)
-                        with Image.open(image_path) as img:
-                            frames.append(img.copy())
-                return frames
-
-        def extract_features(self, images):
-            """
-            Extracts features from a list of images using pre-trained CLIP-ViT-B-32.
-
-            Args:
-                images (list): List of PIL Images
-
-            Returns:
-                torch.Tensor: Feature matrix of shape (batch, 512)
-            """
-            inputs = processor(
-                images=images, return_tensors="pt", padding=True, truncation=True
-            )
-            inputs = {k: v.to(self.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}  # move to device
+                print("Extracting I-frames with ffmpeg...")
+                subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+
+                filenames = sorted([f for f in os.listdir(temp_dir) if f.endswith(".jpg")])
+                print(f"Total I-frames found: {len(filenames)}")
+                print(f"Sampling every {self.frame_sample_rate}th frame")
+
+                for i, filename in enumerate(filenames):
+                    if i % self.frame_sample_rate != 0:
+                        continue
+                    image_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, filename)
+                    with Image.open(image_path) as img:
+                        img = img.convert("RGB")
+                        feature = self.extract_single_feature(img)
+                        feature_list.append(feature.cpu())
+
+            return torch.stack(feature_list)
+
+        def extract_single_feature(self, img):
+            inputs = self.processor(images=img, return_tensors="pt")
+            inputs = {k: v.to(self.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
             with torch.no_grad():
-                features = self.model.get_image_features(**inputs)
-                return features
-
+                feature = self.model.get_image_features(**inputs)
+            return feature.squeeze(0)
 
 def run(file):
-    """
-    Runs the operator.
-
-    Args:
-        file (dict): `VideoFactory` file object
-
-    Returns:
-        generator: Yields video and I-frame vector representations
-    """
     fname = file["path"]
+
     try:
-        vid_analyzer = VideoAnalyzer(fname)
+        vid_analyzer = VideoAnalyzer(fname, frame_sample_rate=1)  # Now processing all I-frames
         return gendata(vid_analyzer)
     finally:
-        os.remove(fname)
-
+        if file.get("is_temp", False) and os.path.exists(fname):
+            os.remove(fname)
 
 def cleanup(param):
     pass
 
-
 def state():
     pass
+