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

[Lincoln Peters]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 02:43 am, 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.

I'm not really clear on how GNUift works (or is supposed to work), but I think 
it does something like that.  Every time I've seen it demo'ed, the pictures 
it returned all looked similar in terms of color, brightness, contrast, etc., 
although it took me a while to see that.

> Easy for you, hard for the computer. (read a book call On Intelligence
> if your intrested in stuff like this)

True, but the computer has a lot more spare time than I do!


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