There was a slide desk sitting around google that had a 'facial recognition' UDF a while back.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Mridul Muralidharan <mrid...@yahoo-inc.com>wrote: > > Hi, > > We have a few projects which do this on hadoop, but I dont see any reason > why it cant have been done in pig. > As Alan and Ashutosh mentioned, the image itself will be just bytearray > (and so you need your own loader, or in our case use a sequence file loader) > : but you can extract and populate meta-data about the image through udf > primitives which can then be used in the pig workflow to control how it is > processed in a scaleout fashion on top of hadoop. > > > Regards, > Mridul > > > On Tuesday 27 July 2010 12:26 AM, Ifeanyichukwu Osuji wrote: > >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I was wondering if it would be possible to process images on a >> low level using PIG. I want to be able to write a pig script >> that can differentiate between two images. >> >> >
