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by nikmobi 3413 days ago
I would imagine it's simply a temporal comparison of pixel colors at predetermined locations, similar to how the Shazam algorithm[1] works? You'd just need to analyze enough pixels to reduce "collisions", coupled with the temporal aspect!

[1] https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf