How to identify similar images using hashing and Python
Hi 👋, In this article I would like to talk about image hashing. Image hashing algorithms are specialized hashing functions that output the hash of an image based on the image’s properties. Duplicate images output the same hash value and visually identical images output a hash value that is slightly different. To simplify hash("white_cat") = "aaaa" hash("brown_cat") = "aaba" hash("car") = "xkjwe" Some use cases for image hashing are: Duplicate Image Detection Anti-Impersonation / Image Stealing Image filtering Reverse image search Let’s play around with image hashing techniques using Python and the ImageHash library....