On 4 December 2014 at 09:08, James Heald <[email protected]> wrote:

> As well as exact duplicates, there may often also be different versions of
> the same painting with different lighting, or scans of slightly different
> reproductions of the same work.  I don't know whether the algorithm is
> permissive enough to pick all of these up, but as many as can be picked up
> would be good to tag as "other versions" of the same underlying image.


Careful here - algorithms that spot almost-duplicates will happily
flag different shots from the same shoot. Definitely not something to
act upon without close human inspection.


> In general, we probably wouldn't *remove* duplicate images, but we would
> want to identify them as versions of each other.



Oh yeah, this'll be useful.


- d.

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