# Another brain fart idea: ML for comparing thumbnails

**URL:** <https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/another-brain-fart-idea-ml-for-comparing-thumbnails/1081>\
**Category:** Flow Production Tracking\
**Tags:** feature\
**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/another-brain-fart-idea-ml-for-comparing-thumbnails/1081 "2019-09-12T00:55:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![frank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/frank/32/247_2.png) [@frank](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/another-brain-fart-idea-ml-for-comparing-thumbnails/1081/1 "2019-09-12T00:55:17Z")

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So here is another thought Id’ like to put up for discussion:  
I think it’d be awesome if we could sort by thumbnails, meaning similar looking thumbnails would be grouped together to quickly find peer-shots across the database and enable more efficient shot allocation that way (or finding reference shots etc).

Do you guys deploy machine learning yet? This might be a cool use for it 😉

frank

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**Author:** ![Beth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/beth/32/117_2.png) [@Beth](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/Beth)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/another-brain-fart-idea-ml-for-comparing-thumbnails/1081/2 "2019-09-12T20:14:55Z")

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We can always dream big Frank! 🌈

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**Author:** ![frank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/frank/32/247_2.png) [@frank](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/another-brain-fart-idea-ml-for-comparing-thumbnails/1081/5 "2019-09-13T00:45:38Z")

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I will keep dreaming:

Open source:

> **[Image Similarity](https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/image-similarity)**
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> Image Similarity compares two images and returns a value that tells you how visually similar they are. The lower the the score, the more contextually similar the two images are with a score of '0' being identical. Sifting through datasets looking for...

off you go! 😃

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**Author:** ![jhultgre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/jhultgre/32/487_2.png) [@jhultgre](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/jhultgre)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/another-brain-fart-idea-ml-for-comparing-thumbnails/1081/6 "2019-09-13T18:57:18Z")

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I think Ubisoft had a talk at GDC this year where they were using ML to categorize their assets.

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**Author:** ![frank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/frank/32/247_2.png) [@frank](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/another-brain-fart-idea-ml-for-comparing-thumbnails/1081/7 "2019-09-14T02:49:16Z")

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Yadle is using it as well:  
[https://www.yadle.com](https://www.yadle.com)