OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Online Photo DB: Stage 4l – Evaluation of PixelPost

Online Photo DB: Stage 4k – Evaluation of Jalbum

Which requirements does Jalbum meet?

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Online Photo DB: Stage 4j – Evaluation of Photobucket

Online Photo DB: Stage 4i – Evaluation of ZenPhoto

Online Photo DB: Stage 4h – Evaluation of Phanfare.com

Hashes To Detect Resized Images

So, I have lots of photos, and some are duplicated on several web-sites, with no reference to the original source. I want to detect matches, so I can move them (and their associated meta-data) all to a single yet-to-be-determined destination.

But here’s the snag. Some of the photos have been made into different sizes and qualities for web-viewing. It would save me time if I could automatically detect this. I need an equivalent to SoundEx that works on images, so images have the same hash even if they are resized.

How would you do that? If you answered “Google it, and find what the standard solution is”, you might be smarter than me. This article is about what I did instead.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 4g – Evaluation of SmugMug

Which requirements does SmugMug meet?

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Online Photo DB: Stage 4f – Evaluation of Zooomr

Which requirements does Zooomr meet?

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Online Photo DB: Stage 4e – Evaluation of BeenUp2.com

Online Photo DB: Stage 4d – Evaluation of Windows Live Photos