15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the determination of how likely the query video clip matches the original video clip includes a confidence value determined from rules based on learning a probability.
11. A method of determining how likely a query video clip matches an original video clip, the method comprising: generating a signature distance measure as a sum of differences in dimensions between an individual query signature generated from a frame of the query video clip and a selected original signature generated from a frame of the original video clip that when compared to a threshold indicates the frame of the query video clip and the frame of the original video clip are likely similar frames, wherein the original video clip is an entry in a video database and wherein a signature is comprised of multiple dimensions of an image in a frame of a video; generating a time correlation to compare the likely similar frames of the query video clip and the original video clip by selecting different close-by frames of the original video clip and the query video clip to determine whether a close-by frame provides an improved distance measure indicating an better pair of matching frames; and generating additional distance measurements and time correlations between a sequence of different frames of the query video clip and the original video clip to determine how likely the query video clip matches the original video clip.