| The problem of finding similar images is one of the most important among other problems related to digital images. Many computer and internet users want to find similar images to the ones stored on their computers or websites. Similar files can be harmful because they waste precious space on hard disks. However, there is no simple and very good method to find such images. The reason is that it is very difficult to define “similar” image. For example, if one image is similar to one person, it may not be similar to another and vice versa. This is the main reason why no satisfactory definition has been found yet. There are many possible measures of how one image is similar to another. Usually, edges is what most people think is the most important in recognizing an image as similar. One of the programs for finding similar images is Similar Images Finder. The program is written in C++ therefore it is very fast. The application uses portable libraries such as wxWidgets, so it is fully portable and runs in Windows, Linux and Mac OS. The program analyzes all image files in a selected directory and saves a report in HTML format. The method that is used to calculate images similarity is based on analyzes of edges in the given image. How to use similar images finder? First, launch the exe file, then choose a directory and the reference image. Finally, click “Start” button to launch the searching process. When the process id finished, open the report file. One can click the thumbnails to see the whole image. All images are sorted in descending order by similarity to the reference file. |