Looking for an Image Comparison/Pattern Recognition Library

Question

The end goal would be to see if

contains

Answer 1

You should probably take a look at OpenCV and VLfeat.

Answer 2

How about ImageMagick? Its not a library per se however if you can provide shell access to your environment its pretty easy to use.

You would most probably be interested in the compare command.

EDIT: ImageMagick does contain tools for sub-image search like subimage-search.

Answer 3

Object detection can be performed for example using

• Rapidminer IMMI (image mining extension for one of the leading open-source data-mining platform)
• BoofCV (using SURF feature detection)

Answer 4

Look at this - http://gallery.azureml.net/MachineLearningAPI/02ce55bbc0ab4fea9422fe019995c02f - it supports OCR. This also supports multiple languages and distortion - http://www.projectoxford.ai/doc/vision/OCR