NewsForge Reviews imgSeek
I don’t often feature non-Windows or Mac based products here on PhotographyBLOG. Indeed, I think NewsForge’s review of the image management software imgSeek is the first ever Linux product that has appeared on this website. imgSeek has a rather unique feature to help you find your photos:
“When imgSeek added your pictures to its collection, it extracted the metadata tags and cached thumbnails for easy viewing, but it also calculated the wavelet transform of the image, which is sort of a hash of the visual information in the picture. And that gives imgSeek the unique ability to search through files based on their appearance.
For instance, you can select any image in the browser, right-click on it, and from the context menu choose “Query for similar images.” This query will return every image in your collection with a similar wavelet transform, to an adjustable threshold level.”
Website: NewsForge - imgSeek Review



#1 Donncha O Caoimh
I tried it ages ago and was reasonably well impressed. I have a much larger photo collection now so it should be a lot more useful now!
Despite all the clever tech behind it I have to admit that I find the most useful graphics viewer to be one of the simplest on my system: gqview. Very simple, very fast!
9:08 am - Tuesday, July 20, 2004
#2 Mad@TT
hey!! they stole my idea
10:10 am - Tuesday, July 20, 2004
#3 Ricardo Cabral
A beta Windows version is available for download at the project site: http://imgseek.sf.net/
11:44 pm - Sunday, January 23, 2005