Hello, This may of interest to members of this group. A Québec tech research and development org has recently patented a method for detecting video copies.
"A method to detect video copying based on content. The method comprises providing a set of reference data elements derived from a set of reference video frames in a reference video stream; providing a set of query data elements derived from a set of query video frames in a query video stream, each of the query data elements having a corresponding query data element identifier; associating with each of the reference data elements a fingerprint selected from among the query data element identifiers; and determining a similarity measure for the query video stream relative to the reference video stream by a comparison of the query data element identifiers to the fingerprints." More info: http://www.google.com/patents/US8671109 -- Catherine Roy www.catherine-roy.net
