Open Source Digital Video Fingerprinting

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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.

If the videos have audio, it may be much easier to use audio fingerprinting instead. — Zaz, Sep 18 '16 at 14:11
See also: https://superuser.com/questions/60189/ But there are no opensource :( — Alexey Vazhnov, Feb 20 '21 at 19:52

Alix Axel · Answer 1 · 2012-04-05T05:16:46.840

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

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answered Aug 24 '10 at 12:18

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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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

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answered Aug 25 '10 at 22:47

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That is suboptimal for several reasons: different videos can have different frame rate, scale, aspect ratio, brightness, saturation. All these factors render per-frame image comparison useless. – Ihor Kaharlichenko Aug 26 '10 at 05:46

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 02 '17 at 22:08

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

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answered Aug 06 '12 at 20:23

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Welcome to Stack Overflow! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – GDP Aug 06 '12 at 22:18
Your link is 404. http://duplicatevideosearch.com/ has a shareware application you can download an use, but it is not Open Source. – Alecz Apr 27 '17 at 22:12

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 27 '10 at 03:07

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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.

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That's not open source. – jamix Sep 17 '13 at 09:00

Daniel Ryan · Answer 5 · 2017-10-02T22:01:01.937

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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/

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answered Sep 12 '11 at 07:08

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Looks like that link changed as well. Here's the new link: http://www.gracenote.com/video/media-recognition/ – conarro Sep 25 '17 at 20:57

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