The invention relates to a similar or repeated video retrieval method and device, the device comprises an application program module, a task scheduling module, a gene extraction module and a gene database module, the method comprises the following steps: firstly extracting video genes from all videos in a video database, and inserting the video genes into a Milvus vector database; during retrieval, and the gene of the video to be retrieved is also extracted, a retrieval request is initiated, and the gene database returns a retrieval result which specifically comprises video gene storage and similar video retrieval. The invention has the advantages that 1) compared with the prior art, the retrieval accuracy is higher, and the situation of missing detection can be reduced; (2) retrieval results are sorted according to the number of similar pictures, and the retrieval requirements of users are better met; 3) the retrieval result contains the overlap ratio of the to-be-retrieved video and the target video, so that the user can judge whether the target video is a repeated video or not; and 4) the invention does not depend on video text description information, and only needs to provide a video file.