AI-Driven Near-Duplicate Image Detection and Analysis

The project, 'Piercing the Veil of Digital Illusion', addresses the proliferation of duplicate images through a hybrid AI-based detection system combining perceptual hashing and DINOv2 deep embeddings. It features innovations like incremental indexing, similarity threshold calibration, and real-time UI capabilities. The architecture integrates fast hash filtering, FAISS-based similarity search, and clustering, achieving high robustness to transformations. Applications span social media...