Open Source Digital Video Fingerprinting [closed]

Question

Are there any Open Source Digital Video Fingerprinting initiatives?

ie: Something that could compare two video files of disparate quality but indicate they are of the same event, program etc.

Answer 1

If you consider video as a sequence of individual frames and compare key frames, then these previous answers provide some suggestions / algorithms / places to start:

• Image fingerprint to compare similarity of many images (See in particular @GalacticCowboy's answer as he may have done what you are looking for.)

• Duplicate Image Detection

Answer 2

I'm aware of pHash, haven't tested it though but it provides bindings for several programming languages.

Answer 3

I am not aware of open-source - but you are basically searching for this:

http://yuvsoft.com/technologies/video_matching/

They sell the code that lets you do what you are looking for.

Answer 4

This is not open source but Gracenote has a product to do the trick: http://www.gracenote.com/products/videoid/

Edit: Looks like the original product is gone but they do this: http://www.gracenote.com/video/media-recognition-and-insights/

Edit 2: here is the latest link: http://www.gracenote.com/video/media-recognition/

Answer 5

'Duplicate Video Search' is a shareware application you can download and use, but it is not Open Source: http://duplicatevideosearch.com/