Media fingerprinting and identification system
View Patent ↗The overall architecture and details of a scalable video fingerprinting and identification system that is robust with respect to many classes of video distortions is described. In this system, a fingerprint for a piece of multimedia content is composed of a number of compact signatures, along with traversal hash signatures and associated metadata. Numerical descriptors are generated for features found in a multimedia clip, signatures are generated from these descriptors, and a reference signature database is constructed from these signatures. Query signatures are also generated for a query multimedia clip. These query signatures are searched against the reference database using a fast similarity search procedure, to produce a candidate list of matching signatures. This candidate list is further analyzed to find the most likely reference matches. Signature correlation is performed between the likely reference matches and the query clip to improve detection accuracy.
1. A method comprising:
determining, for respective sub-regions of a set of sub-regions that each include pixels of a frame of a query video, using a computing device, respective pixel color data corresponding to pixels included within the respective sub-regions;
comparing, using the computing device, the respective pixel color data for the respective sub-regions with at least one median color value;
determining, for the respective sub-regions, using the computing device, respective descriptor values based on the comparing;
generating, using the computing device, fingerprint data for the frame of the query video based on the respective descriptor values for the respective sub-regions;
providing, by the computing device, the fingerprint data to a server over a network, wherein the server has access to reference fingerprint data of a reference database, and wherein the reference fingerprint data corresponds to a plurality of reference videos and is derived using pixel color data for the plurality of reference videos; and
responsive to providing the fingerprint data to the server, receiving, by the computing device, a message that is generated based on a determination that the query video corresponds to a reference video of the reference database.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the respective pixel color data for the respective sub-regions is represented in multiple color components, and wherein the at least one median color value comprises median color values for at least two of the multiple color components.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the multiple color components comprise red, green, and blue components.
4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the multiple color components comprise a luminance component and a chrominance component.
5. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the respective descriptor values for the respective sub-regions comprises determining multiple descriptor values for each of the respective sub-regions.
6. The method of claim 2 , wherein generating the fingerprint data based on the respective descriptor values comprises generating a signature using the respective descriptor values and one or more threshold values.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the signature is an N-dimensional signature, wherein N is a multiple of the number of sub-regions within the set of sub-regions.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one median color value comprises, for each of multiple color components of the pixel color data, a median value for the set of sub-regions.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message comprises an indication of the reference video.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message is an instruction.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the instruction comprises an instruction to flag the query video.
12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the instruction comprises an instruction to contextually place an advertisement.
13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the instruction comprises an instruction to restrict playback of the query video.
14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause a computing device to perform functions comprising:
determining, for respective sub-regions of a set of sub-regions that each include pixels of a frame of a query video, respective pixel color data corresponding to pixels included within the respective sub-regions;
comparing the respective pixel color data for the respective sub-regions with at least one median color value;
determining, for the respective sub-regions, respective descriptor values based on the comparing;
generating fingerprint data for the frame of the query video based on the respective descriptor values for the respective sub-regions;
providing the fingerprint data to a server over a network, wherein the server has access to reference fingerprint data of a reference database, and wherein the reference fingerprint data corresponds to a plurality of reference videos and is derived using pixel color data for the plurality of reference videos; and
responsive to providing the fingerprint data to the server, receiving a message that is generated based on a determination that the query video corresponds to a reference video of the reference database.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the respective pixel color data for the respective sub-regions is represented in multiple color components, and wherein the at least one median color value comprises median color values for at least two of the multiple color components.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the multiple color components comprise red, green, and blue components.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein determining the respective descriptor values for the respective sub-regions comprises determining multiple descriptor values for each of the respective sub-regions.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the at least one median color value comprises, for each of multiple color components of the pixel color data, a median value for the set of sub-regions.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the message comprises an indication of the reference video.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the message is an instruction.
21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20 , wherein the instruction comprises an instruction to flag the query video, an instruction to contextually place an advertisement, or an instruction to restrict playback of the query video.
22. A computing device comprising:
a processing unit; and
a computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:
determining, for respective sub-regions of a set of sub-regions that each include pixels of a frame of a query video, respective pixel color data corresponding to pixels included within the respective sub-regions,
comparing the respective pixel color data for the respective sub-regions with at least one median color value,
determining, for the respective sub-regions, respective descriptor values based on the comparing,
generating fingerprint data for the frame of the query video based on the respective descriptor values for the respective sub-regions,
providing the fingerprint data to a server over a network, wherein the server has access to reference fingerprint data of a reference database, and wherein the reference fingerprint data corresponds to a plurality of reference videos and is derived using pixel color data for the plurality of reference videos, and
responsive to providing the fingerprint data to the server, receiving a message that is generated based on a determination that the query video corresponds to a reference video of the reference database.
23. The computing device of claim 22 , wherein the respective pixel color data for the respective sub-regions is represented in multiple color components, and wherein the at least one median color value comprises median color values for at least two of the multiple color components.
24. The computing device of claim 23 , wherein the multiple color components comprise red, green, and blue components.
25. The computing device of claim 23 , wherein determining the respective descriptor values for the respective sub-regions comprises determining multiple descriptor values for each of the respective sub-regions.
26. The computing device of claim 22 , wherein the at least one median color value comprises, for each of multiple color components of the pixel color data, a median value for the set of sub-regions.
27. The computing device of claim 22 , wherein the message comprises an indication of the reference video.
28. The computing device of claim 22 , wherein the message is an instruction.
29. The computing device of claim 28 , wherein the instruction comprises an instruction to contextually place an advertisement.
30. The computing device of claim 28 , wherein the instruction comprises an instruction to flag the query video or an instruction to restrict playback of the query video.