1. A method for content based video sequence identification comprising: determining active regions in frames of a video sequence; selecting a set of video frames in response to temporal statistical characteristics of the determined active regions; extracting video features of the selected video frames; generating multi-dimensional content based signatures based on the extracted video features that identify the video sequence; weighting pixel bins with multiple parameters dependent on pixel characteristics with respect to the surrounding area laid out as a log-polar functional space inscribed into the determined active regions of the selected video frames to form histogram bins for all video frame contours; normalizing a pixel count for each histogram bin according to the weights and according to histogram bin area; and applying a threshold function to generate a binary signature with a number of bits corresponding to the number of bins.