image sorting in Linux

[William Park]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:22:35PM -0500, Byron Sonne wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've collected a large number of images in my time on this planet - and 
> not just pr0n either ;)
> 
> Problem is, they came from all over the place (3.5" disks from friends, 
> cameras, flatbed scanners, email, web pages, search engines, etc.) and 
> consequently do not have a consistent naming scheme. So far it's over 
> 25000 images, and I have no intentions of correcting them all by hand or 
> script.
> 
> Does there exist a relatively easy to use program that will sort the 
> images by their graphical similarity and then automatically rename them? 
> I'd be happy if they were named from '1.jpg' to '26382.jpg'. I'm not 
> after anything complicated.

Renaming them is easy.
    count=1
    for i in *.jpg; do
	mv $i /tmp/$((count++)).jpg
    done
    mv /tmp/*.jpg .

But, how do you compare 2 JPG's? 

> 
> I know gqview has a very handy sort by similarity function; it's great 
> and I use it to eliminate dupes. But it doesn't do reorganization as 
> near as I can tell.
> 
> I suppose I could rip the similarity code out of the gqview source and 
> hack something together, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel and do a 
> half-assed job at it.
> 
> Cheers,
> B
> 
> p.s. On a unrelated note, thanks to all the folks who've sent in resumes 
> to my employer. It's hard finding people and every bit of help counts.
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