System and method for digital fingerprinting of media content

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a computer system, a media file comprising video content;
• converting, via at least one processor of the computer system, the video content to greyscale, resulting in greyscaled video content;
• segmenting, via the at least one processor of the computer system, the greyscaled video content using a rolling window of predetermined length, resulting in a downsampled plurality of processed segments;
• calculating, via the at least one processor for each segment within the plurality of downsampled processed segments, an average of pixel values, resulting in an average grey pixel value for each frame;
• hashing, via the at least one processor, the average grey pixel value for each segment within the plurality of downsampled processed segments, resulting in a plurality of hashed segment pixel values;
• and
• generating, via the at least one processor by combining at least two hashed segment pixel values from the plurality of hashed segment pixel values, a fingerprint of at least a portion of the media file.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a media file comprising video content;
• converting the video content to greyscale, resulting in greyscaled video content;
• segmenting the greyscaled video content using a rolling window of predetermined length, resulting in a downsampled plurality of processed segments;
• calculating, for each segment within the plurality of downsampled processed segments, an average of pixel values, resulting in an average grey pixel value for each frame;
• hashing the average grey pixel value for each segment within the plurality of downsampled processed segments, resulting in a plurality of hashed segment pixel values;
• and
• generating, by combining at least two hashed segment pixel values from the plurality of hashed segment pixel values, a fingerprint of at least a portion of the media file.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a media file comprising video content;
• converting the video content to greyscale, resulting in greyscaled video content;
• segmenting the greyscaled video content using a rolling window of predetermined length, resulting in a downsampled plurality of processed segments;
• calculating, for each segment within the plurality of downsampled processed segments, an average of pixel values, resulting in an average grey pixel value for each frame;
• hashing the average grey pixel value for each segment within the plurality of downsampled processed segments, resulting in a plurality of hashed segment pixel values;
• and
• generating, by combining at least two hashed segment pixel values from the plurality of hashed segment pixel values, a fingerprint of at least a portion of the media file.