Efficient rights recovery through fingerprinting in asset management systems

ivitec's Head of Research and Development, Rene Cavet, will give exclusive insights into ivitec's fingerprinting technology at this years FKTG (Fernseh und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft) Conference in Nuremberg. He will discuss possible applications of fingerprinting technology for efficient rights recovery in asset management systems.

Content management is the core business of a television station. Rights control of assets is also a major challenge in the digital workflow. In-house productions can often be controlled via automatic metadata transfer, but at system boundaries and reuploading of produced content, a complete loss of rights information usually occurs.

Due to the high manual effort involved, the reassignment of rights is often not or only insufficiently carried out. With the help of sophisticated fingerprinting methods, it is now possible to restore rights assignment fully automatically, even in edited foreign material, simply and efficiently in large archives. For this purpose, fingerprints are automatically extracted from videos, which are compared with the archive and the original rights assignments are restored.

In this presentation, the possibilities and performance of current fingerprinting developments will be demonstrated using the example of a large asset archive in various applications. Both historical and current productions are restored using a multi-stage recognition process. Furthermore, the integration into existing video editing and production processes is explained.