[NBLUG/talk] Searching for near-identical photos?

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:43:36AM -0800, Aaron G wrote:
> That seems like it would be EXTREAMLY hard for a computer to do...
> The only way I could see it possibly working is that you had some kinda
> metric for "probility the picture is a match" and you could define your
> threshold.

Well, hard or not, KDE gives me an option when I right-click an image:
"Search for Similar Images..."

It appears to use the image index server (which I know nothing about),
which is accessible from the KDE Control Center under
"System Administration" -> "Image Index".

This might be a GUI frontend to some command-line- and server-based tools...


> This is the same kinda thing as teaching a computer to catch a baseball,
> or catching it yourself.

Well, it _is_ the 21st century.  My computer can talk, check my spelling and
grammar, connect me to thousands of people all over the world, etc. etc. :^)

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