How We Made Image Copy-Detection ~1,000,000 Faster — by Refusing to Look at Pixels
Structural hashing for pixel art: a 1024-byte key that answers 'is this the same artwork?' in 115 nanoseconds — and then tells you exactly what was edited. Nine days, or one second. That is the real distance between the naive answer and the structural one — measured, on a single CPU core, for the same question asked of the same ten million images. This article is the story of that gap, and of the…
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