Our plan is to make a windows application, written in Visual to automatically detect commercial advertisements from pre-recorded cartoon shows. Commercials have preset time slots allotted to them. These tirne slots are usually 30 seconds or a minute long. Some are shorter, but the length is usually a multiple of 10. There have been mathematical equations developed to tell when a commercial break will occur and we plan to play off that regularity.
Episodes have a preset length, with preset commercial breaks.
Commercials are always set at a higher volume than the episode they are aired during. Channel logos are placed over episodes, but not over commercial. Probably the hardest parameter to detect. Since we plan to concentrate our efforts on cartoons, the episodes tend to have fewer colors, further apart than the commercial, in between parts of the episode. Frequency of motion.