[Spambayes] Inspecting images (was: SpamBayes to Handle Embedded Images)

[Tony Meyer]

>> Other than a miraculous OCR feature showing up in SpamBayes soon,  
>> I'm out
>> of ideas for a simple way of managing this type of mail on my home  
>> PC.
>
> Hmm... if anyone is going to work on this, do it the Bayesian way.
> Don't try to recognise text, just recognize patterns in the image.
> Just like spambayes doesn't understand language, just recognizes words
> (and a little of their context).

FWIW, I suspect that this may be quite effective.  Techniques like  
this are used in image processing already - for example, the Viola- 
Jones method of detecting patterns (e.g. faces) in an image uses a  
cascade of haar-like classifiers: essentially, a whole lot of tiny  
little classifiers that look at tiny parts of the image (which are  
all automatically generated via training, not specified as rules).

If only there was more time in the day ... :)

=Tony.Meyer

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