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image-match
Python2016–2022
rhsimplex / image-match

image-match

🎇 Quickly search over billions of images

5Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3KGitHub stars
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🎇 Quickly search over billions of images

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-09 14:09:30 UTC to 2022-08-23 19:14:16 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Hi everyone, I'm the author of the underlying image matching library ( https://github.com/ascribe/image-match ). First, thank you Alex for your contribution -- it makes image-match much more useful for the typical user. Just to answer a couple of questions in the comments: Goldberg's algorithm (the one used in the image-match library) is not very robust against arbitrary rotation -- around +/- 5 degrees should be ok. 90 degree rotations, mirror images, and color inversion are handled with the `all_orientations` parameter but under the hood this is just manipulating the image array and searching multiple times. Even though the hash is a vector, and the similarity is a vector distance, when it's time to search for an image, we don't compute every distance. The hash vector is binned into integer "words" and we lookup against these columns
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. Only if there is a hit is the full signature computed. You can find more details in the Goldberg paper ( http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hcwong/Pdfs/icip02.ps ). Our original use case was a web image crawler, and hopefully we can release that code someday too. In the meantime, if you decide to roll your own crawler, be sure to Elasticsearch's bulk API ( https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... ) for the crawlers so as not to burden the Elasticsearch cluster too much. We were able to get well over 10k inserts/s on a 5-node Elasticsearch cluster (I don't remember how many worker nodes...the whole thing is IO limited waiting for images to download for processing, so there is even more optimization to be had there). Thanks again, Alex!
In Show HN: Scalable reverse image search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch

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