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wickedchicken on June 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Perceptual Hashes Work

This is pretty much the opposite from what the article is talking about -- the article is trying to get a hash from an image in order to compare that image to another, while you're talking about synthesizing an image from an arbitrary hash...

piotrSikora on June 3, 2011 | [–]

Hence "reminds me" :)

killerswan on June 3, 2011 | [–]

Well, one could use a variation of this technique to compare tons of other things... Music?

bct on June 3, 2011 | [–]

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Audio_Fingerprint

The Picard MP3 tagger uses this kind of thing (and MusicBrainz' database of tracks and audio fingerprints) to identify files.

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