~ TarsosLSH in a Photomosaic Web App

TarsosLSH is a Java library implementing Locality-sensitive Hashing (LSH), a practical nearest neighbor search algorithm for high dimensional vectors that operates in sublinear time. The open source software package is authored by me and is available on GitHub: TarsosLSH on GitHub.

With TarsosLSH, Joseph Hwang and Nicholas Kwon from Rice University created an Image Mosaic web application. The application chops an uploaded photo into small blocks. For each block, a color histogram is created and compared with an index of color histograms of reference images. Subsequently each block is replaced with one of the top three nearest neighbors, creating a mosaic. Since high dimensional nearest neighbor search is needed, this is an ideal application for TarsosLSH. The application somewhat proves that TarsosLSH can be used in practical applications, which is comforting.

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