A powerful open-source tool for analyzing image and video datasets founded by the authors of XGBoost, Apache TVM & Turi Create - Danny Bickson, Carlos Guestrin and Amir Alush.

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Getting Started

pip install fastdup from PyPI:

pip install fastdup

More installation options are available here.

Initialize and run fastdup:

import fastdup

fd = fastdup.create(input_dir="IMAGE_FOLDER/")
fd.run()

Remove duplicates from your dataset in a single call:

import fastdup
fastdup.remove_duplicates("IMAGE_FOLDER/")

This finds and deletes duplicate images (similarity > 0.96 by default) directly from disk. Use dry_run=True to preview which files would be removed before deleting, and adjust the distance parameter to control the similarity threshold.

Visualize the results in a static gallery:

fd.vis.duplicates_gallery()    # gallery of duplicates
fd.vis.outliers_gallery()      # gallery of outliers
fd.vis.component_gallery()     # gallery of connected components
fd.vis.stats_gallery()         # gallery of image statistics (e.g. blur, brightness, etc.)
fd.vis.similarity_gallery()    # gallery of similar images

Check this quickstart tutorial for more info

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/738a329d-8063-4515-a961-f2527934a0ca

Features & Advantages

fastdup handles labeled/unlabeled datasets in image or video format, providing a range of features:

What sets fastdup apart from other similar tools:

• Quality: High-quality analysis to identify duplicates/near-duplicates, outliers, mislabels, broken images, and low-quality images.
• Scale: Highly scalable, capable of processing 400M images on a single CPU machine. Scales up to billions of images.
• Speed: Optimized C++ engine enables high performance even on low-resource CPU machines.
• Privacy: Runs locally or on your cloud infrastructure. Your data stays where it is.
• Ease of use: Works on labeled or unlabeled datasets in image or video format with support for major operating systems like MacOS, Linux and Windows.

Learn from Examples

Learn the basics of fastdup through interactive examples. View the notebooks on GitHub or nbviewer. Even better, run them on Google Colab or Kaggle, for free.

See more examples.

Join the Community

Get help from the fastdup team or community members via the following channels:

Community-contributed blog posts on fastdup:

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Disclaimer

Usage Tracking

We have added an experimental crash report collection using Sentry.

We DO NOT collect user-specific information such as folder names, user names, image names, image content, etc. We do collect data related to fastdup's internal operations and performance statistics such as total number of images, average runtime per image, total free memory, total free disk space, number of cores, etc.

This help us identify and resolve stability issues, thereby improving the overall reliability of fastdup. The code for the data collection is found here. On MAC we use Google crashpad to report crashes.

Users have the option to opt out of the experimental crash reporting system through one of the following methods:

• Define an environment variable called SENTRY_OPT_OUT
• or run() with turi_param='run_sentry=0'

License

fastdup is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.

For any more information or inquiries regarding the license, please contact us at info@visual-layer.com or see the LICENSE file.