Metadata API

You can programmatically get image exif, pHash, and other metadata using either of the API below:

Get file metadata from remote URL if you don't want to upload image files to ImageKit.io media library or,
Get file metadata for uploaded media files if you want to fetch metadata for already uploaded files in your ImageitKit.io media library.

Metadata Object Structure

For images

{
    "height": 68,
    "width": 100,
    "size": 7749,
    "format": "jpg",
    "hasColorProfile": true,
    "quality": 0,
    "density": 72,
    "hasTransparency": false,
	"pHash": "f06830ca9f1e3e90",
    "exif": {
        "image": {
            "Make": "Canon",
            "Model": "Canon EOS 40D",
            "Orientation": 1,
            "XResolution": 72,
            "YResolution": 72,
            "ResolutionUnit": 2,
            "Software": "GIMP 2.4.5",
            "ModifyDate": "2008:07:31 10:38:11",
            "YCbCrPositioning": 2,
            "ExifOffset": 214,
            "GPSInfo": 978
        },
        "thumbnail": {
            "Compression": 6,
            "XResolution": 72,
            "YResolution": 72,
            "ResolutionUnit": 2,
            "ThumbnailOffset": 1090,
            "ThumbnailLength": 1378
        },
        "exif": {
            "ExposureTime": 0.00625,
            "FNumber": 7.1,
            "ExposureProgram": 1,
            "ISO": 100,
            "ExifVersion": "0221",
            "DateTimeOriginal": "2008:05:30 15:56:01",
            "CreateDate": "2008:05:30 15:56:01",
            "ShutterSpeedValue": 7.375,
            "ApertureValue": 5.625,
            "ExposureCompensation": 0,
            "MeteringMode": 5,
            "Flash": 9,
            "FocalLength": 135,
            "SubSecTime": "00",
            "SubSecTimeOriginal": "00",
            "SubSecTimeDigitized": "00",
            "FlashpixVersion": "0100",
            "ColorSpace": 1,
            "ExifImageWidth": 100,
            "ExifImageHeight": 68,
            "InteropOffset": 948,
            "FocalPlaneXResolution": 4438.356164383562,
            "FocalPlaneYResolution": 4445.969125214408,
            "FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": 2,
            "CustomRendered": 0,
            "ExposureMode": 1,
            "WhiteBalance": 0,
            "SceneCaptureType": 0
        },
        "gps": {
            "GPSVersionID": [
                2,
                2,
                0,
                0
            ]
        },
        "interoperability": {
            "InteropIndex": "R98",
            "InteropVersion": "0100"
        },
        "makernote": {}
    }
}

For videos

{
    "height": 720,
    "width": 1280,
    "bitRate ": 546524,
    "duration": 70,
    "audioCodec ": "aac",
    "videoCodec ": "h264",
    "size": 23490,
    "exif": {
        "image": {
            "Make": "Canon",
            "Model": "Canon EOS 40D",
            "Orientation": 1,
            "XResolution": 72,
            "YResolution": 72,
            "ResolutionUnit": 2,
            "Software": "GIMP 2.4.5",
            "ModifyDate": "2008:07:31 10:38:11",
            "YCbCrPositioning": 2,
            "ExifOffset": 214,
            "GPSInfo": 978
        },
        "thumbnail": {
            "Compression": 6,
            "XResolution": 72,
            "YResolution": 72,
            "ResolutionUnit": 2,
            "ThumbnailOffset": 1090,
            "ThumbnailLength": 1378
        },
        "exif": {
            "ExposureTime": 0.00625,
            "FNumber": 7.1,
            "ExposureProgram": 1,
            "ISO": 100,
            "ExifVersion": "0221",
            "DateTimeOriginal": "2008:05:30 15:56:01",
            "CreateDate": "2008:05:30 15:56:01",
            "ShutterSpeedValue": 7.375,
            "ApertureValue": 5.625,
            "ExposureCompensation": 0,
            "MeteringMode": 5,
            "Flash": 9,
            "FocalLength": 135,
            "SubSecTime": "00",
            "SubSecTimeOriginal": "00",
            "SubSecTimeDigitized": "00",
            "FlashpixVersion": "0100",
            "ColorSpace": 1,
            "ExifImageWidth": 100,
            "ExifImageHeight": 68,
            "InteropOffset": 948,
            "FocalPlaneXResolution": 4438.356164383562,
            "FocalPlaneYResolution": 4445.969125214408,
            "FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": 2,
            "CustomRendered": 0,
            "ExposureMode": 1,
            "WhiteBalance": 0,
            "SceneCaptureType": 0
        },
        "gps": {
            "GPSVersionID": [
                2,
                2,
                0,
                0
            ]
        },
        "interoperability": {
            "InteropIndex": "R98",
            "InteropVersion": "0100"
        },
        "makernote": {}
    }
}

Exif

For more information about the Exif standard, please refer to the specification found on http://www.exif.org. A comprehensive list of available Exif attributes and their meaning can be found on http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/.

Perceptual Hash (pHash)

Perceptual hashing allows you to construct a hash value that uniquely identifies an input image based on the image's contents. It is different from cryptographic hash functions like MD5 and SHA1. pHash provides similar hash value after minor distortions, like small rotations, blurring, and compression in the image.

ImageKit.io metadata API returns the pHash value of an image in the metadata response as a hexadecimal string. More information about pHash can be found on https://www.phash.org/.

Using pHash to find similar or duplicate images

The hamming distance between two pHash values determines how similar or different the images are.

The pHash value returned by ImageKit.io metadata API is a hexadecimal string of 64bit pHash. The distance between two hash can be between 0 and 64. A lower distance means similar images. If the distance is 0, that means two images are identical.

To calculate a similarity score between 0 and 1, we can do:

SimilarityScore = 1 - (phashDistance(phash1, phash2) / 64

For example, consider these two images. The first image with pHash value 63433b3ccf8e1ebe

Second with pHash value f5d2226cd9d32b16

The distance between two pHash values can be calculated using the utility function provided by ImageKit.io server-side SDKs.

The hamming distance between 63433b3ccf8e1ebe and f5d2226cd9d32b16 is 27.

const ImageKit = require('imagekit');

const imagekit = new ImageKit({
    publicKey : "your_public_api_key",
    privateKey : "your_private_api_key",
    urlEndpoint : "https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/"
});

imagekit.pHashDistance("63433b3ccf8e1ebe", "f5d2226cd9d32b16");
// output: 27

from imagekitio import ImageKit

imagekit = ImageKit(
    public_key='your_public_api_key',
    private_key='your_private_api_key',
    url_endpoint = 'https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/'
)

# distance is 27
distance = imagekit.phash_distance("63433b3ccf8e1ebe", "f5d2226cd9d32b16"),

$public_key = "your_public_api_key";
$your_private_key = "your_private_api_key";
$url_end_point = "https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id";

$imageKit = new ImageKit(
    $public_key,
    $your_private_key,
    $url_end_point
);


$distance = $imageKit->pHashDistance("63433b3ccf8e1ebe", "f5d2226cd9d32b16");
echo $distance;
// 27

SimilarityScore = 1-27/64 = 0.578125

The similarity score is 57%. This means the two images are not similar.

Now let's consider a case of two similar images. The first image with pHash value 63433b3ccf8e1ebe

Let's resize & crop this image to 300x400 and reduce the quality using aggressive compression. The pHash value of the slightly modified image is 61433b3fcf8f9faf

The hamming distance between these two pHash values is 8

const ImageKit = require('imagekit');

const imagekit = new ImageKit({
    publicKey : "your_public_api_key",
    privateKey : "your_private_api_key",
    urlEndpoint : "https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/"
});

imagekit.pHashDistance("63433b3ccf8e1ebe", "61433b3fcf8f9faf");
// output: 8

SimilarityScore = 1-8/64 = 0.875

The similarity score is 87%, so it is safe to say that the two images are similar.

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