VVAS Overlay Metadata - VVAS Overlay Metadata - 6.3 English - XD056

Vitis Video Analytics SDK (VVAS) 6.3 User Guide (XD056)

Document_ID
XD056
Release_Date
2026-09-24
Version
6.3 English

VVAS overlay metadata holds the information of geometric shapes and text to be overlaid on video frames. The vvas_xoverlay plugin parses these structures and renders the shapes onto the frame. An intermediate plugin (vvas_xmetaconvert) is required to convert inference metadata from upstream plugins into overlay metadata before passing it to vvas_xoverlay. Currently supported overlay shapes are rectangles, text, lines, arrows, circles, polygons, and masks.

The GStreamer plug-ins set and get overlay metadata from GstBuffer using the gst_buffer_add_vvas_overlay_meta() API and gst_buffer_get_vvas_overlay_meta() API, respectively.