Method and apparatus for identifying TV channels

The present invention provides a method of identifying TV channels, the method comprising: acquiring television video image; video image corresponding to each of the television station logo template logo template library, wherein the television for video logo image extraction; the logo feature template corresponding to each of the extracted logo television video image and the corresponding logo template matching characteristics; the closest matching template logo corresponding to television channel as a recognition result. With this method, channels can improve the recognition accuracy. Further, there is provided a TV channel identification means.