imagededup VS CLIP

imagededup

To generate the hashes I was just going to use https://github.com/idealo/imagededup as it has been effective in my testing. The issue is the scalability issue. That code even is able to find similar images, using distance hamming. But they didn't care about scalability, and that is now my biggest bottleneck.

Which is why, it's much better to use a dedicated tool that can visually compare photos (using a neural net/machine learning model) to identify duplicate images. If you want a command-line tool for scripting purposes then check out imgdup2go or imagededup.

I had used phash to find the duplicate images. The hashing algorithm is ingenious...And it was able to find duplicates (and thus remove) efficiently imagededub has perceptual hashing.

We will also need two more libraries: OpenAI’s CLIP GitHub repo, enabling us to generate image features with the CLIP model, and the umap-learn library, which will let us apply a dimensionality reduction technique called Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) to those features to visualize them in 2D:

Biggest missing feature for all these self hosted photo hosting is the lack of a real search. Being able to search for things like "beach at night" is a time saver instead of browsing through hundreds or thousands of photos. There are trained neural networks out there like https://github.com/openai/CLIP which are quite good.

In computer vision, this is known as zero-shot learning, or zero-shot prediction, because the goal is to generate predictions without explicitly being given any example predictions to learn from. With the advent of high quality multimodal models like CLIP and foundation models like Segment Anything, it is now possible to generate remarkably good zero-shot predictions for a variety of computer vision tasks, including:

(Github Repo | Most Popular Model | Paper | Project Page)

the first thing that comes to mind is CLIP: https://github.com/openai/CLIP

Whenever I’m working on semantic search applications that connect images and text, I start with a family of models known as contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP). These models are trained on image-text pairs to generate similar vector representations or embeddings for images and their captions, and dissimilar vectors when images are paired with other text strings. There are multiple CLIP-style models, including OpenCLIP and MetaCLIP, but for simplicity we’ll focus on the original CLIP model from OpenAI. No model is perfect, and at a fundamental level there is no right way to compare images and text, but CLIP certainly provides a good starting point.

in the modal card it says: pretrained text encoders (OpenCLIP-ViT/G and CLIP-ViT/L).

Command: "C:\StabilityMatrix\Packages\stable-diffusion-webui\venv\Scripts\python.exe" -m pip install https://github.com/openai/CLIP/archive/d50d76daa670286dd6cacf3bcd80b5e4823fc8e1.zip --prefer-binary

CLIP might work for your needs.

pip install deepfloyd_if==1.0.2rc0 pip install xformers==0.0.16 pip install git+https://github.com/openai/CLIP.git --no-deps pip install huggingface_hub --upgrade