reverse video search

RVSearch is a tool to do a reverse video search on YouTube.

The comparison is done using pHash and Linear search algorithm, thus it is fast and precise to find exact similar frames between any videos, but not smart enough to find some what similar frames when the video is distorted, swinged, transitioned and overall, changed, enough to escape YouTube own copyright detection algorithm.

Finding similarity between distorted and changed images can be done using basic object detection algorithms, but when importing them to compare videos it will be unbearably slow.

Requirements

Python 3 or greater

For other missing packages first you need to install them using pip:

pip install pandas youtube_dl opencv-python numpy setuptools scikit-video PyQt5 Pillow pip pytz scipy python-dateutil six

Installation:

python3 pip install rvsearch

Usage:

You can work directly with RVSearch's command line interface:

rvsearch input.csv

Input:

For input you only need to provide the URLs for source and target videos in a .csv format file, under columns Compilation and Source.

For example:

i |         Compilation        |          Source          |
----------------------------------------------------------
0 |  https://you.tube/video    |   https://you.tube/video |
----------------------------------------------------------
1 |                            |   https://you.tube/video |
----------------------------------------------------------
2 |                            |   https://you.tube/video |

Note: Only ONE compilation per file is supported for now.

If you want to give multiple inputs, you can.

for example:

rvsearch input1.csv input2.csv input3.csv

But note that output file name will be redundant. If you want to manually specify the output file's name, see Advance Usage.

Output:

The output will be saved as a .csv file on current working directory. To see where a similarity between two videos happened, checkout the timestamp of both videos.

Below you can see an example of output format:

|    Cmpl_url   |  Cmp_name | Cmp_chnl |   Source_url  | Source_name | Source_chnl | Cmp_TimeStamp | Source_TimeStamp |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  https://...  |    Name   |   Name   |  https://...  |    Name     |    Name     |     12:34     |      1:23        |

Cmpl_url: Web URL for the compilation video
Cmp_name: Title of the compilation video
Cmp_chnl: Channel name (uploader) of the compilation video
Source_url: Web URL for the Source video
Source_name: Title of the Source video
Source_chnl: Channel name (uploader) of the Source video
Cmp_TimeStamp: The timestamp on compilation video where similarity found
Source_TimeStamp: The timestamp on source video where similarity found

Advance Usage:

Argument	Explanation
`-h`	Displays help message listing all command-line arguments
`-q`	Be quiet. Doesn't show anything about what you do
`-v`	Be verbose. Output everything, used mostly for debugging the program.
`-o`	Specifies the name for output file

For example:

rvsearch input1.csv input2.csv -o results.csv -q

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