NEC has announced today that its video content identification technology will be supported in the upcoming MPEG-7 video standard, meaning content owners that release videos with the standard can “detect illegal copies” uploaded to the Internet almost instantly.
The company says each frame has its own unique signature, meaning that doing any editing to the file or analog or camera copies will completely alter the overall signature of the original video.
NEC says “these developments are expected to significantly reduce the time and cost of manual content inspections as well as improve the scale and accuracy of content assessment.”
Among the features of the video content identification technology are:
Accurate detection of copied or altered video content
Video signatures are extracted for each frame based on differences in the luminance between sets of sub-regions on a frame that are defined by a variety of locations, sizes, and shapes. Video signatures represent a unique fingerprint that can be individually detected frame by frame. This technology is capable of accurately detecting video content with that was created with such editing operations as analog capturing (*3), re-encoding (*4) and caption overlay (*5), which was conventionally very difficult to detect.
A high detection rate and low false positive rate for all video contents
By estimating confidence of signatures generated from each frame and using the confidence for sequence identification, the technology achieves a high detection rate (*6) with a very low false positive rate (*7). These technologies achieved an average detection rate of 96% at a very low false alarm rate of 5ppm (5 in one million) through tests conducted by the international standardization organization.
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Google has announced they will be adding links to select media content on YouTube videos that will allow users to purchase music and games from both Amazon MP3 and iTunes.
The service, the YouTube eCommerce Platform began today and will be expanded internationally over the next few months.
“Our goal is to improve the overall YouTube experience by connecting consumers with relevant information and entertaining content,” Chad Hurley, co-founder and CEO, YouTube, said in a statement. “The addition of retail links will enhance the viewing experience and allow people to engage more deeply with the content they want to consume.”
Beginning today, on the pages of “authorized video content”, Google will be placing embedded download links to the online music services of Amazon and Apple.
So far only EMI and Electronic Arts are part of the service although “partners who use YouTube’s content identification and management system can also enable retail links on claimed videos that they choose to leave up on the site,” Google said.
“Amazon.com is always looking for new ways to make discovering and buying products as convenient as possible for our customers, which is why we’re excited to collaborate with YouTube,” Scott Merlino, senior manager of the Amazon Associates Program, added.
“This is just the beginning of building a broad, viable eCommerce platform for users and partners on YouTube,” according to a YouTube blog post. “Our vision is to help partners across all industries — from music, to film, to print, to TV — offer useful and relevant products to a large, yet targeted audience, and generate additional revenue from their content on YouTube beyond the advertising we serve against their videos.”
