Agentic multimodal AI system for contextual video event understanding and retrieval
MAVIP is a production-grade, multi-agent pipeline that processes egocentric video at scale, classifies temporal events using a custom PyTorch transformer, and enables lightning-fast semantic search via a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Multimodal event frames processed | 15,000+ |
| Contextual retrieval latency reduction | 42 % via LLM orchestration |
| Classification backbone | PyTorch ViT Transformer |
| Vector store backends | FAISS · ChromaDB |
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ MAVIP — Multi-Agent Pipeline │
│ │
│ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ OrchestratorAgent │ │
│ │ (LLM orchestration · workflow routing) │ │
│ └───────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────────────┘ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ ▼ ▼ ▼ │
│ ┌───────────────┐ ┌────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────────┐ │
│ │IngestionAgent │ │Classification │ │ RetrievalAgent │ │
│ │ │ │ Agent │ │ │ │
│ │ • OpenCV │ │ • ViT backbone │ │ • FAISS / ChromaDB │ │
│ │ frame decode│ │ • Temporal │ │ • SentenceTransformers │ │
│ │ • 15 K+ frames│ │ Transformer │ │ • ANN search (top-k) │ │
│ │ • 224×224 RGB │ │ • 9 labels │ │ • Cosine similarity │ │
│ └──────┬────────┘ └──────┬─────────┘ └────────┬───────────────┘ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ └──────────────────┴──────────────────────┘ │
│ │ │
│ ▼ │
│ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ VideoRAGPipeline │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ ┌──────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ │ │
│ │ │ VectorStore │ │ LLM Chain │ │ │
│ │ │ (FAISS/ │ │ (LangChain/ │ │ │
│ │ │ ChromaDB) │ │ LlamaIndex)│ │ │
│ │ └──────────────┘ └─────────────┘ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ Query ──► Embed ──► Retrieve ──► │ │
│ │ Synthesise ──► Answer │ │
│ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │ │
│ ▼ │
│ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ FastAPI HTTP Server │ │
│ │ POST /ingest POST /query GET /health │
│ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Frame Embeddings (T × B × 768)
│
▼
┌──────────────┐
│ Linear Proj │ 768 → 512
└──────┬───────┘
│
▼
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ Temporal Pos. Encoding │ sinusoidal, max_len=15 000
└──────┬───────────────────┘
│
▼
┌──────────────────────────┐ ×6 layers
│ TransformerEncoderLayer │
│ d_model=512 nhead=8 │
│ FFN dim=2048 GELU │
│ Pre-LN dropout=0.1 │
└──────┬───────────────────┘
│
▼
┌──────────────┐
│ MLP Head │ 512 → 256 → 9 classes
└──────┬───────┘
│
▼
Per-frame logits (T × B × 9)
multi_agent_video_insight_pipeline/
│
├── src/
│ └── mavip/ # Main Python package
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── cli.py # CLI entry points
│ │
│ ├── agents/ # Specialised sub-agents
│ │ ├── orchestrator.py # Top-level LLM orchestrator
│ │ ├── ingestion_agent.py # Frame decode & multimodal chunking
│ │ ├── classification_agent.py # Temporal event labelling
│ │ └── retrieval_agent.py # Semantic ANN search
│ │
│ ├── models/
│ │ └── temporal_transformer.py # PyTorch ViT-based classifier
│ │
│ ├── pipelines/
│ │ ├── rag_pipeline.py # LangChain RAG pipeline
│ │ └── serve.py # FastAPI HTTP server
│ │
│ ├── retrieval/ # (vector store adapters — extend here)
│ └── utils/ # Shared helpers
│
├── tests/
│ └── test_pipeline.py # Pytest unit tests
│
├── configs/
│ └── default.yaml # Hydra / OmegaConf config
│
├── notebooks/ # Jupyter exploration notebooks
├── data/
│ ├── raw/ # Input videos (git-ignored)
│ └── processed/ # Processed event frames (git-ignored)
│
├── docs/
├── pyproject.toml # PEP 517 package definition
├── requirements.txt # Pinned dependencies
├── LICENSE
└── README.md
# Clone
git clone https://github.com/your-org/multi-agent-video-insight-pipeline.git
cd multi-agent-video-insight-pipeline
# Create virtual environment
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
# Install (CPU build)
pip install -e ".[dev,notebooks]"
# GPU build (CUDA 12.x)
pip install -e ".[dev,gpu]"mavip-ingest path/to/egocentric_video.mp4 --fps 2mavip-retrieve path/to/video.mp4 "When does the person pick up the phone?" --top-k 10mavip-serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000# Ingest via HTTP
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/ingest -F "video=@my_video.mp4"
# Query via HTTP
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/query \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query": "phone interaction", "top_k": 5}'pytest| Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|
| Async agent interface | asyncio-native throughout — keeps the event loop free during heavy I/O (frame decode, embedding) by offloading to a thread pool executor |
| Pre-LN Transformer | Training-stability improvement over post-LN; critical at 6+ layers on long temporal sequences |
| FAISS flat inner product | Zero-configuration, exact retrieval < 5 ms for 15 K vectors; swap to IVF for 100 K+ |
| ChromaDB fallback | Persistent, distributed alternative when FAISS RAM budget is exceeded |
| Hydra config | Supports CLI override, multi-run sweeps, and reproducible experiment configs without code changes |
| Stub-first architecture | Every agent has a working stub that returns realistic shapes — CI passes without GPU or API keys |
All settings are controlled via configs/default.yaml and can be overridden from the CLI:
# Override ingestion FPS and retrieval top-k
mavip-ingest video.mp4 ingestion.fps=4 retrieval.top_k=20Key config sections:
ingestion:
fps: 1 # Frames per second to sample
max_frames: 15000
classification:
model_name: google/vit-base-patch16-224
device: cpu # Set to "cuda" for GPU
retrieval:
backend: faiss # "faiss" | "chroma"
top_k: 10
rag:
llm_model: gpt-4o
vector_store_backend: faiss# src/mavip/agents/classification_agent.py
EGOCENTRIC_LABELS: list[str] = [
...
"your_new_label", # ← add here
]# src/mavip/pipelines/rag_pipeline.py → query()
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
self._llm = ChatOpenAI(model=self.llm_model, temperature=0)
retriever = self._vector_store.as_retriever(search_kwargs={"k": self.top_k})
chain = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=self._llm, retriever=retriever, return_source_documents=True)# src/mavip/agents/classification_agent.py → _infer_batch()
from transformers import AutoImageProcessor, AutoModelForImageClassification
import torch
processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(self.model_name)
inputs = processor(images=[e["frame_array"] for e in batch], return_tensors="pt").to(self.device)
with torch.no_grad():
logits = self._model(**inputs).logits
return torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1).cpu().numpy()| Library | Purpose |
|---|---|
torch · torchvision |
TemporalEventClassifier, visual feature extraction |
transformers · accelerate |
ViT backbone, HuggingFace model hub |
langchain · llama-index |
LLM orchestration, RAG chain construction |
faiss-cpu · chromadb |
Dense vector indexing and retrieval |
opencv-python · decord |
Video decode and frame sampling |
fastapi · uvicorn |
HTTP serving layer |
hydra-core · omegaconf |
Hierarchical configuration management |
loguru · rich |
Structured logging and terminal output |
Full pinned list: requirements.txt
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