Hi!
*Background*: I want to compare two images that are identical in many
respects (pixel-wise) but are different in the pixel intensity values they
have. I'm aware of the many image comparison methods out there, but I want
to keep it very very simple  (for all the image analysists: these two images
are artificial and made through the same process with some differences
without any spatial translation).
*What I am doing right now*: is calculating the euclidian distance between
the pixel intensities of the 2 images. The mean of all the distances (if the
image is 500*500 pixels then there are 500^2 distances) gives me a measure
of how similar those images are.
*My question is*: is the euclidian distance really the best option when
comparing natural numbers that can only range between 0 and 255, or should I
use some other measure of distance or transform the pixel intensities first?

*Thanks *in advance!


Yakir L. Gagnon, PhD student
The Lund Vision Group
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