Optimizing video formats for computer vision models.

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When optimizing video formats for computer vision models, you would generally be looking into techniques like video pre-processing, converting videos to a frame-by-frame image format that can be efficiently analyzed, resizing or normalizing frames for consistent input to your models, potentially reducing the frame rate to balance between model performance and computational efficiency, and selecting the right codec or container format that balances quality with file size and compatibility with your model pipeline.

However, Pulumi itself is not a video processing tool but rather an infrastructure as code tool that can be used to provision and manage the cloud infrastructure required to perform such tasks at scale. With Pulumi, you can create and manage resources like compute instances, storage, and orchestration services that can be used to deploy a video processing pipeline.

For your goal of optimizing video formats for computer vision models, you might use cloud services for batch processing of video, like AWS Elastic Transcoder or Azure Media Services. You could create a pipeline that ingests videos, processes them according to your optimization needs, and outputs the processed videos to a location where they can be used for computer vision analysis.

Below I will provide a Pulumi program that sets up a basic Azure Video Analyzer resource, which is one of the services you might use in a video processing pipeline. This will not optimize the video formats directly but instead sets up the necessary infrastructure to run such optimizations.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_azure_native as azure_native

# Provision an Azure Video Analyzer resource to be used for video processing.
video_analyzer = azure_native.videoanalyzer.VideoAnalyzer(
    "videoAnalyzer",
    resource_group_name="your_resource_group",  # Replace with your Azure resource group name.
    location="eastus",  # Replace with your desired Azure region.
    # Identity is required for Video Analyzer. Replace with your own details or create one.
    identity=azure_native.videoanalyzer.IdentityArgs(
        type="UserAssigned",
        user_assigned_identities={
            "/subscriptions/your_subscription_id/resourceGroups/your_resource_group/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/your_identity_name": {}
        }
    ),
    # Replace with the Azure storage account ID you will use for storing videos.
    storage_accounts=[
        azure_native.videoanalyzer.StorageAccountArgs(
            id="/subscriptions/your_subscription_id/resourceGroups/your_resource_group/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/your_storage_account",
        )
    ],
    # Optional tags for resource.
    tags={"purpose": "video-processing"}
)

# Exporting the primary endpoint of the Video Analyzer resource.
pulumi.export("video_analyzer_endpoint", video_analyzer.primary_endpoint)
```

In the above program, here's what happens:

1. We import the `pulumi` and `pulumi_azure_native` packages to interact with Pulumi and Azure respectively.
2. We then create an instance of the Azure Video Analyzer service using the `VideoAnalyzer` class, which can be used for various video processings such as analyzing, extracting metadata, etc.
3. In `resource_group_name`, you would put the name of the resource group you have, which is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution.
4. The location is set to `eastus` in the example, but you should set this to wherever you need your resources to be placed geographically.
5. The `identity` parameter must be set as the Video Analyzer requires an identity to interact with other services securely. This uses Azure Managed Identity.
6. `storage_accounts` lists the storage account IDs where you want to store videos for processing.
7. Finally, we export the primary endpoint of the Video Analyzer resource so it can be referenced and accessed by other services.

To actually process video formats, you would build upon this infrastructure code by attaching event handlers, input and output configurations, and specifying the exact tasks to be processed (like codec conversion, frame extraction, etc.). These could be done with additional Pulumi resources or by integrating with other Azure services such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, or your custom application hosted on Azure.