The invention embodiment discloses an automatic detection method and device of video rolling subtitles, and belongs to the
image processing field; the method comprises the following steps: carrying out strong
corner detection to a sensitive area in a video frame so as to obtain characteristic points of a curvature maximum value on an
image edge of the video frame; carrying out
optical flow tracking to each characteristic points so as to obtain a motion state of each characteristic points in a video
stream; rejecting
noise spots according to the motion state of each characteristic points, and roughly positioning the
subtitle to an alternative position according to an area corresponding to the remaining characteristic points; verifying the alternative position according to a preset character image model, if continuous characters are spotted in the alternative position, then the video frame containing the rolling
subtitle is marked. The method and device fully combines features of the rolling
subtitle, model
verification is carried out for the obtained alternative position, so the rolling subtitle in the video can be marked, thereby reducing the images in a non-subtitle motion area of the motion area in the video, greatly improving accuracy of the subtitle area, and furthermore, the subtitle in the video can be conveniently extracted.