Find similar images using python

Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Fri Mar 31 02:33:00 EST 2006


John J. Lee schreef:
> Richie Hindle <richie at entrian.com> writes:
> 
>> [Thomas]
>>> How can I use python to find images that looks quite similar?
>> Have you looked at http://www.imgseek.net/ ?  It's an Open Source Python photo
>> collection manager that does exactly what you're asking for.
> 
> Maybe... I don't recall if it had a duplicate search feature.  What I
> remember is the GUI in which you scribbled a picture, and asked it to
> pull up images that looked like that.  Amusing, though didn't seem to
> work terribly well.  No bad reflection on the author: it's a hard
> problem of course.

It does have a duplicate search feature (see screenshot 
http://www.imgseek.net/sshot/e1c93fe060c6622a6aee90a22921c49a.png for 
example), though I don't know how well it works.

-- 
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on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven



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