So, I’m selfhosting immich, the issue is we tend to take a lot of pictures of the same scene/thing to later pick the best, and well, we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates but not quite.
Some duplicate finding programs put those images at 95% or more similarity.
I’m wondering if there’s any way, probably at file system level, for the same images to be compressed together.
Maybe deduplication?
Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?
The problem is that OP is asking for something to automatically make decisions for him. Computers don’t make decisions, they follow instructions.
If you have 10 similar images and want a script to delete 9 you don’t want, then how would it know what to delete and keep?
If it doesn’t matter, or if you’ve already chosen the one out of the set you want, just go delete the rest. Easy.
As far as identifying similar images, this is high school level programming at best with a CV model. You just run a pass through something with Yolo or whatever and have it output similarities in confidence of a set of images. The problem is you need a source image to compare it to. If you’re running through thousands of files comprising dozens or hundreds of sets of similar images, you need a source for comparison.
OP didn’t want to delete anything, but to compress them all, exploiting the fact they’re similar to gain efficiency.
Using that as an example. Same premise.
No, not really.
The computer is not asked to make decisions like “pick the best image”. The computer is asked to optimize, like with lossless compression.
That’s not what he’s asking at all
yes, they are. reread the post, I just did so and I’m still confident
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Everything you just described is instruction. Everything from an input path and desired result can be tracked and followed to a conclusory instruction. That is not decision making.
Again. Computers do not make decisions.
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It’s Boolean. This isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact. Feel free to get informed though.
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LITERALLY from a “baby’s first 'puter” course: https://highered.mheducation.com/sites/007256380x/student_view0/part1/chapter2/reading_selection_quiz.html#:~:text=Although computers may appear to,humans who programmed the computers.&text=Humans are smarter than computers.&text=It is extremely time-consuming,that it makes correct decisions.
Or if you need something more ELI5: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/160lwe8/eli5_where_exactly_do_computers_make_decisions/
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“Pedantic Asshole tries the whole ‘You seem upset’ but on the Internet and proceeds to try and explain their way out of being embarrassed about being wrong, so throws some idiotic semantics into a further argument while wrong.”
Great headline.
Computers also don’t learn, or change state. Apparently you didn’t read the CS101 link after all.
Also, another newsflash is coming in here, one sec:
“Textbooks and course plans written by educators and professors in the fields they are experts in are not ‘peer reviewed’ and worded for your amusement, dipshit.”
Whoa, that was a big one.