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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There even is a project that uses machine learning to detect sponsor segments. https://github.com/xenova/sponsorblock-ml

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

MythTV has a broadcast television ad detection module and it works pretty damn well.

This goes into a bit of detail on it's methods:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection

A lot of what it does could be applied to a video stream, although adapting it to useful real-time could be tricky.