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in reply to Can i Compare two images in perl ?

Compress the images three times: image1.zip, image2.zip both.zip.

Then calculate similarity = (size(image1.zip) + size(image2.zip)) / size(both.zip).

That value will approach 2.0 as the source bitmaps become more similar. No image processing required!

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Re^2: Can i Compare two images in perl ? (It's a myth!)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 30, 2011 at 22:50 UTC

    This is one of those internet myths that just persists.

    According to your formula, this image and this one ought to approach 2.0. They are to all intents and purposes identical.

    The actual result:

    C:\test>jimagezipcmp.pl
  adding: 1.png (160 bytes security) (deflated 90%)
  adding: 2.png (160 bytes security) (deflated 89%)
  adding: 1.png (160 bytes security) (deflated 90%)
  adding: 2.png (160 bytes security) (deflated 89%)
1.0272952853598

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    Try it yourself:

    #! perl -slw
use strict;
use GD;

sub rgb2n { unpack 'N', pack 'CCCC', 0, @_ }

for my $n ( 1, 2 ) {
    my $im1 = GD::Image->new( 600, 400, 1 );

    $im1->filledRectangle( 0, 0, 600, 400, rgb2n( 255, 255, 255 ) );
    $im1->filledRectangle( 100, 100, 500, 300, rgb2n( 255 - $n, 0, 0 )
+ );

    open O, '>:raw', $n . '.png' or die $!;
    print O $im1->png;
    close O;
}

system q[zip 1.zip 1.png];
system q[zip 2.zip 2.png];
system q[zip 3.zip 1.png 2.png];

my $size1 = -s '1.zip';
my $size2 = -s '2.zip';
my $size3 = -s '3.zip';

print +( $size1 + $size2 ) / $size3;

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      Those are PNGs, not uncomressed bitmaps.

      I certainly wouldn't expect that to work.

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        Okay. I saved those same two pngs as bmps; deleted the 3 old zips; and then compressed the bmps per your post: 

        C:\test>dir ?.bmp
31/05/2011  14:33           720,054 1.bmp
31/05/2011  14:33           720,054 2.bmp
               2 File(s)      1,440,108 bytes

C:\test>del 1.zip 2.zip 3.zip

C:\test>zip 1.zip 1.bmp
  adding: 1.bmp (160 bytes security) (deflated 100%)

C:\test>zip 2.zip 2.bmp
  adding: 2.bmp (160 bytes security) (deflated 100%)

C:\test>zip 3.zip 1.bmp 2.bmp
  adding: 1.bmp (160 bytes security) (deflated 100%)
  adding: 2.bmp (160 bytes security) (deflated 100%)

C:\test>dir ?.zip
31/05/2011  14:34             2,376 1.zip
31/05/2011  14:35             2,376 2.zip
31/05/2011  14:35             4,730 3.zip

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        (2376 + 2376) / 4370 = 1.0874141876430205949656750572082.

        Still nowhere near the 2.0 you would expect if this worked.

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        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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