Verify image sequence

Problem

Problem shaping

Image sequence position and size are fixed and known beforehand (it's not scaled). It will be quite short, maximum of 20 frames and in a closed loop. I want to verify (event driven by button click), that I have seen it before.

Lets say I have some image sequence, like:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5440/60372aeba8595eda.gif

If seen, I want to see the ID associated with it, if not - it will be analyzed and added as new instance of image sequence, that has been seen. I have though about this quite a while, and I admit, this might be a hard problem. I seem to be having hard time of putting this all together, can someone assist (in C#)?

Limitations and uses

I am not trying to recreate copyright detection system, like content id system Youtube has implemented (Margaret Gould Stewart at TED ( link )). The image sequence can be thought about like a (.gif) file, but it is not and there is no direct way to get binary. Similar method could be used, to avoid duplicates in "image sharing database", but it is not what I am trying to do.

My effort

Gaussian blur

Mathematica function to generate Gaussian blur kernels:

getKernel[L_] := Transpose[{L}].{L}/(Total[Total[Transpose[{L}].{L}]])
getVKernel[L_] := L/Total[L]

Turns out, that it is much more efficient to use 2 passes of vector kernel, then matrix kernel. Thy are based on Pascal triangle uneven rows:

{1d/4, 1d/2, 1d/4}
{1d/16, 1d/4, 3d/8, 1d/4, 1d/16}
{1d/64, 3d/32, 15d/64, 5d/16, 15d/64, 3d/32, 1d/64}

Data input, hashing, grayscaleing and lightboxing

Example of source bits, that might be useful:

• Lightbox around the known rectangle: FrameX
• Using MD5CryptoServiceProvider to get md5 hash of the content inside known rectangle atm.
• Using ColorMatrix to grayscale image

Source example

Source example (GUI; code):

Get current content inside defined rectangle.

        private Bitmap getContentBitmap() {
            Rectangle r = f.r;
            Bitmap hc = new Bitmap(r.Width, r.Height);
            using (Graphics gf = Graphics.FromImage(hc)) {
                gf.CopyFromScreen(r.Left, r.Top, 0, 0, //
                    new Size(r.Width, r.Height), CopyPixelOperation.SourceCopy);
            }
            return hc;
        }

Get md5 hash of bitmap.

        private byte[] getBitmapHash(Bitmap hc) {
            return md5.ComputeHash(c.ConvertTo(hc, typeof(byte[])) as byte[]);
        }

Get grayscale of the image.

        public static Bitmap getGrayscale(Bitmap hc){
            Bitmap result = new Bitmap(hc.Width, hc.Height);
            ColorMatrix colorMatrix = new ColorMatrix(new float[][]{   
                new float[]{0.5f,0.5f,0.5f,0,0}, new float[]{0.5f,0.5f,0.5f,0,0},
                new float[]{0.5f,0.5f,0.5f,0,0}, new float[]{0,0,0,1,0,0},
                new float[]{0,0,0,0,1,0}, new float[]{0,0,0,0,0,1}});

            using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(result)) {
                ImageAttributes attributes = new ImageAttributes();
                attributes.SetColorMatrix(colorMatrix);
                g.DrawImage(hc, new Rectangle(0, 0, hc.Width, hc.Height),
                   0, 0, hc.Width, hc.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, attributes);
            }
            return result;
        }