On Apr 11, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a solution to a search problem and want to survey the > community to see if anyone else has dealt with this type of search. > > The application I'm building supports an image processing system. We have a > mathematical way of uniquely representing any particular image as a vector of > 16 values, each ranging between 0 and 255. > > I need to implement a search mechanism that finds the closest matches to a > given image, also represented as a 16 element vector. This is usually called > a "vector space model" search, and it's implemented for full text search in > Postgres as well as Lucene, and probably many other full text search systems. This might be *exactly* what you're looking for: <http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]> Regards, Guyren G Howe Relevant Logic LLC guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com ~ +1 512 784 3178 Ruby/Rails, Xojo, PHP programming PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting Technical writing and training Read my book, Real OOP with REALbasic: <http://relevantlogic.com/oop-book/about-the-oop-book.php> -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
