ImSim: Image Similarity

[n00m]

On Mar 6, 10:17 pm, n00m <n... at narod.ru> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 8:55 pm, John Bokma <j... at castleamber.com> wrote:
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> > n00m <n... at narod.ru> writes:
> > >http://www.nga.gov/search/index.shtm
> > >http://deyoung.famsf.org/search-collections
> > > etc
> > > Seems they all offer search only by keywords and this kind.
> > > What about to submit e.g. roses2.jpg (copy) and to find its
> > > original? Assume we don't know its author neither its title
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> > Title: TinEye, author:http://ideeinc.com/
> > Search:http://www.tineye.com/
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> > Example:
> >  http://www.tineye.com/search/2b3305135fa4c59311ed58b41da5d07f213e4d47/
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> > Notice how it finds modified images.
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> > --
> > John Bokma                                                               j3b
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> It's for kids.
> Such trifles can easily be cracked by e.g. Jorgen Grahn's algo (see
> his message)


Even his algo will be an overhead.
Comparing meta-data/EXIF of image files will be enough in 99% cases.