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Hi Folks,
I have very recently discovered imagemagick and its amazing, and so is the community support.
I am looking for some help on comparing images.
Using windows 10 and the latest version of ImageMagick-7.0.8-68-Q16-x64

What I am trying to achieve:
I have approximately 40,000 images each in two folders, lets call them folder A and folder B, which I need to compare
-The file names in both folders is exactly the same. A -> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..... B -> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.....
-All images are in *.tiff format
-I need to compare image A->1 with B->

Data Prep:
I have currently taken a sample of 100 images from each folder to test the comparison, lets call them folder A# and folder B#.
The first step was to normalize the dimensions. Images in folder A# are 2400x2400, whereas the ones in folder B# are 2350x2350
I converted all images in folder A# to 2350x2350 using the following: then I removed the transparency from all images and converted it to white using: Approach #1: This gave me 1 in output in some cases, which is a great.
But for most comparisons, it gave me 0.9xxx, even when the images were matching.

Approach #2:
I tried using auto-level in hopes to normalize differences arising from brightness, contrast, etc. using the following code and then ran the comparison again, with a similar result Approach #3:
I then converted all images to grayscale, in order to see if the result improved using the following code, but with similar result I have tried other metrics for comparison, such as AE, RMSE, but the result is similar. I have also, tried using FUZZ with AE, it only improves result marginally, not enough to make a clear distinction on the basis of values. Open Question:
Is there a method to normalize images, so that their differences in composition no longer trigger a difference, but only if the images are acutally different if that makes sense?

Here are sample images:
Image 1A: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ULv9Vk ... sp=sharing
Image 1B: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xW4L3k ... sp=sharing
Compare Result: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aw_LRk ... sp=sharing
Comparison value: 0.849224

Some side questions:
1. How can I insert an mage inline in the thread here. when I tried to add the above images as [img], it just displayed a broken image icon
2. What is the difference if I write -fuzz before or after metric -AE
3. Is there a way to write 2>output.txt for all comparisons into 1 txt file with the format "filename - result". Currently, I am concatenating different text docs into 1 in order to parse it in excel. I am pretty sure there is a better way
4. How can I run the compare command for all images in two folders in using * operator. Currently, I am building the script in excel for inidvidual files, and then copying them in command line to execute.

Thanks in advance for your help.

NCC does image normalization by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation

1) To insert an image inline in your compare command would need scripting and that is OS dependent. You would have to loop over each image and put the image into the command as a variable.

2) It would not matter so long as both are before the image files in the command line.

3) I think you have to write a script loop for each image. Then run compare and put the results into a variable and then write the filenames and the variables into your text file.

4) You cannot use wild cards in compare that way. I think you have to script loops over each folder.

The inputs could be trimmed.

3. We can do things like this: If we ">>out.txt", the results will be appended to out.txt.

Using small images is better for comparisons, resizing to like 10x10 pixels.
then using your above compare command...
...gives a value of 1.00653

Using -scale instead of -resize gives 1.00333

Just precision issues.