Comments on: Byte Searching http://phineas.kimbo.org/2006/08/30/byte-searching/ Let's all drink to the death of a clown Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:08:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ectostan http://phineas.kimbo.org/2006/08/30/byte-searching/#comment-15 ectostan Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:21:07 +0000 http://www.kimbo.org/phineas/?p=169#comment-15 I've many a time wanted to search for an image in a way that wasn't limited to what the image's name was. I imagine sampling would work, but I also imagine that could be time consuming. Maybe jpgs, for instance, could incorporate a line of sampled information that conforms to some set standard. A 'fingerprint' code. That would be a background process inherent to the rendering of the image, so it would be painless. You'd just call up your jpg's fingerprint to search for similar or identical fingerprints on the web. I can't really think of a browser-side strategy that could do the job without being a bandwidth hog. I’ve many a time wanted to search for an image in a way that wasn’t limited to what the image’s name was.
I imagine sampling would work, but I also imagine that could be time consuming. Maybe jpgs, for instance, could incorporate a line of sampled information that conforms to some set standard. A ‘fingerprint’ code. That would be a background process inherent to the rendering of the image, so it would be painless. You’d just call up your jpg’s fingerprint to search for similar or identical fingerprints on the web. I can’t really think of a browser-side strategy that could do the job without being a bandwidth hog.

]]> By: Drew Bixcube http://phineas.kimbo.org/2006/08/30/byte-searching/#comment-14 Drew Bixcube Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:03:35 +0000 http://www.kimbo.org/phineas/?p=169#comment-14 I wonder if the crawler in question could just <i>sample</i> the data in each file at a given site, learn just enough data from each file that it must belong to a unique object (or at least narrow the search to a small number of objects). Maybe sample the file in three random locations within the file, so that another file with the same strings on the same lines has a high probability of being the object you're searching for. Of course, I don't know nothin'. I wonder if the crawler in question could just sample the data in each file at a given site, learn just enough data from each file that it must belong to a unique object (or at least narrow the search to a small number of objects). Maybe sample the file in three random locations within the file, so that another file with the same strings on the same lines has a high probability of being the object you’re searching for.

Of course, I don’t know nothin’.

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