A method for controlling and managing redundancy in an image database by elimination of automatically detected exact duplicate and near duplicate images

摘要

A method for processing a given database of digital images to create an image database without any exact duplicate image, the method comprises the steps of providing a database digital images; analyzing one or more digital image in the database to automatically extract depictive-feature based representations of the image; automatically detecting exact duplicate images in the provided database of digital images by comparing the depictive-feature based image representations of the digital images in the database; and automatically eliminating the redundant exact duplicate images to create a duplicate-image-free image database corresponding to the given database.