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

[Bill Kendrick]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:11:08PM -0800, Aaron G wrote:
> It means.. search for images of a simliar type or something, I highly
> doubt it would mean search for images of a similar object. "find all
> pictures of my cousin bob" ... that just won't work.
> Think about how an image is stored on the computer.

Err, which I thought was the question at hand.
(Trying to find duplicate scans of the same image made by different people.)

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> Computers are bad with recognizing patters, whereas humans are pretty
> good, this is part of what allows us to recognise people in dark light,
> far away, partial images, that kinda thing... to a computer, this is
> VERY challanging. (ie. why facial recongnition software sucks).
> The same kinda thing applys to your picture problem.

Um... like I said, I don't think that was his problem.


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