EUDEMON: A System for Online Video Frame Copy Detection by Earth Mover's Distance

Author(s):  
Jia Xu ◽  
Qiushi Bai ◽  
Yu Gu ◽  
Anthony K.H. Tung ◽  
Guoren Wang ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Hargreaves ◽  
Matthew Dyer ◽  
Michael Gaultois ◽  
Vitaliy Kurlin ◽  
Matthew J Rosseinsky

It is a core problem in any field to reliably tell how close two objects are to being the same, and once this relation has been established we can use this information to precisely quantify potential relationships, both analytically and with machine learning (ML). For inorganic solids, the chemical composition is a fundamental descriptor, which can be represented by assigning the ratio of each element in the material to a vector. These vectors are a convenient mathematical data structure for measuring similarity, but unfortunately, the standard metric (the Euclidean distance) gives little to no variance in the resultant distances between chemically dissimilar compositions. We present the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD) for inorganic compositions, a well-defined metric which enables the measure of chemical similarity in an explainable fashion. We compute the EMD between two compositions from the ratio of each of the elements and the absolute distance between the elements on the modified Pettifor scale. This simple metric shows clear strength at distinguishing compounds and is efficient to compute in practice. The resultant distances have greater alignment with chemical understanding than the Euclidean distance, which is demonstrated on the binary compositions of the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD). The EMD is a reliable numeric measure of chemical similarity that can be incorporated into automated workflows for a range of ML techniques. We have found that with no supervision the use of this metric gives a distinct partitioning of binary compounds into clear trends and families of chemical property, with future applications for nearest neighbor search queries in chemical database retrieval systems and supervised ML techniques.


2016 ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Daniel Reynolds ◽  
Richard A. Messner

Video copy detection is the process of comparing and analyzing videos to extract a measure of their similarity in order to determine if they are copies, modified versions, or completely different videos. With video frame sizes increasing rapidly, it is important to allow for a data reduction process to take place in order to achieve fast video comparisons. Further, detecting video streaming and storage of legal and illegal video data necessitates the fast and efficient implementation of video copy detection algorithms. In this paper some commonly used algorithms for video copy detection are implemented with the Log-Polar transformation being used as a pre-processing step to reduce the frame size prior to signature calculation. Two global based algorithms were chosen to validate the use of Log-Polar as an acceptable data reduction stage. The results of this research demonstrate that the addition of this pre-processing step significantly reduces the computation time of the overall video copy detection process while not significantly affecting the detection accuracy of the algorithm used for the detection process.


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