User:Jheald/sandbox/Image similarity search
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Description: Scratchpad for notes, links, resources etc on searching for images by image similarity, ultimately with a view to trying to identify repeated images in the Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection.
Real-world stories
[edit]Teams
[edit]- Proposal to apply "Perceptual Image Hashing" to the whole of Commons [1]
Target datasets
[edit]- History of England (1826) -- various designs of different fillers, in various states of printing, plus some portraits
- 625 versions of the arms of the city of London, in two different main types
Forum sites
[edit]Stack overflow
[edit]- Simple and fast method to compare images for similarity
- What algorithm could be used to identify if images are the “same” or similar, regardless of size?
- Visual similarity search algorithm
- Algorithm for finding visually similar photos from a database?
- How is google search by image implemented?
Quora.com
[edit]- What is the algorithm used by Google Search by Image?
- What parameters can be used to measure how similar two images are?
- Is there an algorithm implementation to fingerprint images so that similar images can be identify?
See also
[edit]Image registration (may be solving a more complex problem than we need)]
Papers
[edit]- Chum et al, "[www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/papers/chum07.pdf Scalable Near Identical Image and Shot Detection]"
- "The MPEG-7 Video Signature Tools for Content Identification"
"Content based image retrieval"
[edit]- Content-based image retrieval, List of CBIR engines
- http://printart.isr.ist.utl.pt/
- http://www.chart.ac.uk/chart2002/papers/noframes/ward.html (test of "Virage" (2002), to find images with similar textural qualities)
- 2009 overview poster [2]
- http://library.ifla.org/209/ Oxford work on printed broadsides
Texture analysis
[edit]Code
[edit]- VLFeat
- implements SIFT (Scholarpedia)
- OpenCV (i.e. Open Computer Vision)
- http://matchbox.openplanet.org