Re: Advice on NID for media fingerprint

worley@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) Mon, 25 April 2016 17:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: Advice on NID for media fingerprint
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Certainly the idea is interesting, but I'm not sure it qualifies as a
system of "names" -- in a sample of 100,000 images, 1% of the images had
the same blockhash as one or more other images.  (There are something
like 30 million images in Wikipedia, which would imply over 300,000
collisions.)

Dale