▲ ▼ Identifying myself from random Internet videos
I was checking out a random Youtube video the other day and for a pleasant surprise I was there in it. It was tourist video and I was standing outside a shop when I was captured in the video. I thought it would be nice for other strangers in the video to identify themselves in the video as well.
Then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if anyone can identify themselves in the random Internet video when they want to. I searched for such solution but couldn't find any.
Since, it's common nowadays for anyone to shoot a video and upload it to the Internet; I think it would be great if there is a tool for identifying ourself in those videos.
I believe Yandex image search indexe thumbnails from YouTube clips, I know this doesn't fully folve the issue but it's a good starting point.
Hey, thanks for that I'll check out Yandex image search. I wonder whether it searches for exact same image in the video or would it give matching results irrespective of the content i.e. like uploading my picture gives all the videos I'm in even if the uploaded picture wasn't part of any video.
It does show similar images to the one you searched for too.
Unfortunately Yandex image search doesn't seem to be finding the images from YouTube videos, at-least didn't with the ones I searched with(I took screenshot of people from videos and searched).
Anyways, thank you for your comment!
The solution which addresses this need gap can also solve other problems such as identifying involuntary pornography by the victims or law enforcement to initiate takedowns. But, unfortunately in-spite of excellent improvement to computation and image processing; due to the massive size of the data (number of videos) hosted in popular platforms this kind of solution is limited to implementation by the respective platform owners(it is even hard for them to implement).
Now that you've said that, I think it is even more useful for involuntary pornography victims than what I've said.