Find similar images using python

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Thu Mar 30 19:37:05 EST 2006


Richie Hindle <richie at entrian.com> writes:

> [Thomas]
> > How can I use python to find images that looks quite similar?
> 
> Have you looked at http://www.imgseek.net/ ?  It's an Open Source Python photo
> collection manager that does exactly what you're asking for.

Maybe... I don't recall if it had a duplicate search feature.  What I
remember is the GUI in which you scribbled a picture, and asked it to
pull up images that looked like that.  Amusing, though didn't seem to
work terribly well.  No bad reflection on the author: it's a hard
problem of course.


John




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