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Image recognition using MapReduce

hi,

I am doing a project where the use Hadoop to recognize faces in jpg files. In recognition of faces using the library faint, for this to happen i need to get the whole picture. How do I get the whole picture at once using the MapReduce?

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Permalink Reply by Jason Venner on November 5, 2009 at 3:11am

In my prior experience with image recognition with hadoop, the images were either individual files stored in hdfs or elsewhere, or we stored sets of the in the value field of sequence files.

In this way each map call would work on the entirety of a single image.