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ISCC - Image-Code#

A similarity preserving perceptual hash for images.

The ISCC Content-Code Image is created by calculating a discrete cosine transform on normalized image-pixels and comparing the values from the upper left area of the dct-matrix against their median values to set the hash-bits.

Images must be normalized before using gen_image_code. Prepare images as follows:

  • Transpose image according to EXIF Orientation
  • Add white background to image if it has alpha transparency
  • Crop empty borders of image
  • Convert image to grayscale
  • Resize image to 32x32
  • Flatten 32x32 matrix to an array of 1024 grayscale (uint8) pixel values

gen_image_code(pixels, bits = ic.core_opts.image_bits) #

Create an ISCC Content-Code Image with the latest standard algorithm.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
pixels Sequence[int]

Normalized image pixels (32x32 flattened gray values).

required
bits int

Bit-length of ISCC Content-Code Image (default 64).

ic.core_opts.image_bits

Returns:

Type Description
ISCC

ISCC object with Content-Code Image.

gen_image_code_v0(pixels, bits = ic.core_opts.image_bits) #

Create an ISCC Content-Code Image with algorithm v0.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
pixels Sequence[int]

Normalized image pixels (32x32 flattened gray values)

required
bits int

Bit-length of ISCC Content-Code Image (default 64).

ic.core_opts.image_bits

Returns:

Type Description
ISCC

ISCC object with Content-Code Image.

soft_hash_image_v0(pixels, bits = ic.core_opts.image_bits) #

Calculate image hash from normalized grayscale pixel sequence of length 1024.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
pixels Sequence[int] required
bits int

Bit-length of image hash (default 64).

ic.core_opts.image_bits

Returns:

Type Description
bytes

Similarity preserving Image-Hash digest.