Apple NeuralHash is a perceptual hashing method for images based on neural networks. It can tolerate image resize and compression. The steps of hashin

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Apple NeuralHash is a perceptual hashing method for images based on neural networks. It can tolerate image resize and compression. The steps of hashing is as the following:

If you have a recent version of macOS (11.4+) or jailbroken iOS (14.7+) installed, simply grab these files from /System/Library/Frameworks/Vision.framework/Resources/ (on macOS) or /System/Library/Frameworks/Vision.framework/ (on iOS).

Normally compiled Core ML models store structure in model.espresso.net and shapes in model.espresso.shape, both in JSON. It's the same for NeuralHash model but compressed with LZFSE.

Note: Neural hash generated here might be a few bits off from one generated on an iOS device. This is expected since different iOS devices generate slightly different hashes anyway. The reason is that neural networks are based on floating-point calculations. The accuracy is highly dependent on the hardware. For smaller networks it won't make any difference. But NeuralHash has 200+ layers, resulting in significant cumulative errors.

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