Method and equipment for identifying misleading play button

The invention discloses a method and equipment for identifying a misleading play button, and relates to the field of image processing, in particular to the field of image identification. The specific implementation scheme is as follows: determining a plurality of candidate areas including play buttons in a to-be-detected image; extracting feature information of the plurality of candidate areas; screening the plurality of candidate areas according to the extracted feature information and priori knowledge about the misleading play button so as to filter out candidate areas not including the misleading play button and obtain at least one candidate area to be detected; and testing the at least one candidate area to be tested to determine whether the play button included in the at least one candidate area to be tested is the misleading play button. According to the method and the device disclosed by the invention, the misleading play button can be accurately identified, and the method and the device have relativel