ImSim: Image Similarity

[Grigory Javadyan]

At least you could've tried to make the script more usable by adding
the possibility to supply command line arguments, instead of editing
the source every time you want to compare a couple of images.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:23 AM, n00m <n00m at narod.ru> wrote:
> Let me present my newborn project (in Python) ImSim:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/imsim/
>
> Its README.txt:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImSim is a python script for finding the most similar pic(s) to
> a given one among a set/list/db of your pics.
> The script is very short and very easy to follow and understand.
> Its sample output looks like this:
>
>  bears2.jpg
> --------------------
>  bears2.jpg    0.00
>  bears3.jpg   55.33
>  bears1.jpg   68.87
>    sky1.jpg   83.84
>    sky2.jpg   84.41
>     ff1.jpg   91.35
>   lake1.jpg   95.14
>  water1.jpg   96.94
>     ff2.jpg  102.36
>  roses1.jpg  115.02
>  roses2.jpg  130.02
>
> Done!
>
> The *less* numeric value -- the *more similar* this pic is to the
> tested pic. If this value > 70 almost for sure these pictures are
> absolutely different (from totally different domains, so to speak).
>
> What is "similarity" and how can/could/should it be estimated this
> point I'm leaving for your consideration/contemplation/arguing etc.
>
> Several sample pics (*.jpg) are included into .zip.
> And of course the stuff requires PIL (Python Imaging Library), see:
> Home-page: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
> Download-URL: http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-116.htm
>
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