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Series Part 1, Part 2

I’ve been playing around with spatial matching on clker.com . My goal was to figure out whether an image being submitted already exists or not, and to do that very fast. Titles, tags and all information in the image can change, so basically they are useless when it comes to know whether an image is repeated with high confidence. What is really needed is a set of features, that can be extracted fast enough and stored in the database, and indexed in a practically searchable manner.

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Many websites today rely on media be it images or videos. One reason is humans are visual creatures, they like seeing things versus reading long articles.

Images on websites can be divided into two different types: Images used in the website theme including logos, rounded corners, backgrounds …etc. and images used as content. Obviously, the ones discussed here are the content images. Images used in the website theme will be accessed frequently and almost with every page view, and usually they are very few and better managed by storing them in a directory.

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Human beings are visual creatures. Pictures and eye sight is the second important way by which humans learn after hearing. Adding pictures related to your post will help visitors get your point. Exactly like adding pictures in a presentation, which help people understand the description made by the presenter.

Adding pictures to your weblog post will also help attract attention to your article, and increase the time your visitors stay. Pictures breaks the boring lengthy text of an article and gives the reader a break in the middle.

An important factor is then how easy is it to a) find a picture ad b) add it to your weblog?

Clker.com offers a huge collection of high quality cliparts. All cliparts are tagged with relevant words making it very easy to search and find the exact picture you’re looking for. You can directly copy the HTML code and paste it in your weblog’s page. All pictures can be easily embedded in any HTML source.

By default, all pictures are floated to the left making the text wrap around it without wasting your weblog space. You can manually remove the float and allow the picture to occupy a full horizontal area as shown above.

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