Video Content Identification

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Author: Dr. Jian Lu, Vobile, Inc.

Video Content Identification is concerned with identification of video content by computers. It differs from Video Object Recognition that is concerned with identifying objects inside video content. The goal of video content identification is to identify video content as a whole, e.g., it's the movie "God Father".

Contents

Tentative list of topics

A brief history of video content identification

Techniques of video content identification

Matadata Tagging

Cryptographic Hashing

Fingerprinting

Watermarking

Audio ID for Video

Applications of video content identification

content filtering

content tracking

contextual advertising

video archive management


Dr. Jian Lu accepted the invitation on 4 May 2009 (self-imposed deadline: 4 November 2009).

Invited by: Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
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