You've got a picture of somebody's face, it's a million pixels. Each pixel has a range of values from zero to 256. I want to hash a face with some function into an integer.

你有一个人的脸部照片，它有一百万个像素,每个像素的值范围在0到256之间,我想用某个函数将一张脸部照片。

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In my in my area of research, it's common for us to want to process about 100 images a second in order to get real time display. Each image has about a million elements in it. I 've got to process about a half a gig of data a second in order to get anything out of it.

在我们的研究领域内，我们经常要在一秒钟内处理大概,100张图片以获得实时显示,每个图片大概包括了100万像素,因此我必须在1秒内,处理半个G的数据,来获取我想要的。

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