Re: open source image matching software

2008-02-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Andreas Hirczy wrote: You might try ImgSeek Or rather $ apt-cache show imgseek ... even if I think findimagedupes is your friend. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: open source image matching software

2008-02-07 Thread Andreas Hirczy
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a large number of scanned images of photographs. They are > scanned from prints, and for some images there are several prints. I > would like to find a program that would group similar images (similar > in some sense that approximates human percep

Re: open source image matching software

2008-02-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 February 2008 at 19:11, Paul E Condon wrote: | I have a large number of scanned images of photographs. They are | scanned from prints, and for some images there are several prints. I | would like to find a program that would group similar images (similar | in some sense that approximates huma

Re: open source image matching software

2008-02-07 Thread Riccardo Stagni
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:11:12PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > Suggestions? gqview can compare images using different levels of similarity. I can't tell anything about the algorithm it uses, but it always worked fine for my needs. Also, it's very fast and can attach metadata to images. ciao Ric

Re: open source image matching software

2008-02-06 Thread Brendon Higgins
Paul E Condon wrote (Thu, 7 Feb 2008): > I would like to find a program that would group similar images (similar > in some sense that approximates human perception of similarity) and It might be worth having a look at the findimagedupes program (it's a Debian package). This program builds a datab

Re: open source image matching software

2008-02-06 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
The so-called "Normalized Compression Distance" measure (NCD) can be used for this kind of thing. I used it for OCR of handwritten digits in the paper "Clustering by Compression". You will probably have to fiddle with a small script to translate each image into a new file that is uncompressed and

open source image matching software

2008-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a large number of scanned images of photographs. They are scanned from prints, and for some images there are several prints. I would like to find a program that would group similar images (similar in some sense that approximates human perception of similarity) and flags the slight difference