使用 Homebrew, apk, winget, zypper 安装 dssim

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• dssim

项目历史

The README frames dssim as an improved SSIM-derived metric for practical image-compression comparison: multi-scale comparison, linear-light RGB scaling, Lab color space, alpha support, color profiles, multicore execution, and C/Rust/WASM library use.

The release history shows an early 1.x Rust API era in 2015 and 2016, followed by a major Rust rewrite in 2.8.0 on 2017-11-10. That rewrite emphasized safer code, full-resolution chroma comparison, linear-light premultiplied-alpha scaling, and acknowledged PNG-only/color-profile limitations at the time. Later 3.x releases improved packaging, WASM compatibility, and performance.

采用历史

dssim is used by image codec and optimization developers who need a perceptual comparison metric rather than byte equality or plain RGB error. The README explicitly discusses comparing codecs either at equal file size or equal DSSIM score.

The tool is packaged by Homebrew, Alpine, openSUSE/zypper, and Windows winget; its README also mentions Homebrew and Ubuntu Snap availability. Homebrew analytics showed 187 installs over the preceding 365 days during this batch.

使用方式

Typical usage is `dssim original.png modified.png`, optionally comparing many modified images against one original or writing a visual difference image with `-o`. The README warns users to quote the dssim version because the score scale has changed between versions.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

dssim is package-nerd significant because it packages an image-quality metric as both a CLI and reusable native/WASM library. It sits in the practical space between academic SSIM papers and real package-manager workflows for codec benchmarking, regression tests, and image optimization.

时间线

• 2015-12-05: 1.2.0 introduced Rust API compatibility and improved sRGB gamma precision.
• 2016-05-09: 1.3.x releases were published with precision, stdin, gamma, and PNG-handling fixes.
• 2017-11-10: 2.8.0 was published as a major Rust rewrite.
• 2022-09-18: 3.2.3 was published with WASM compatibility and performance improvements.
• 2025-03-05: 3.4.0 was published with another performance improvement and is the Homebrew stable version recorded for this batch.

Related projects

• SSIM is the underlying perceptual-similarity algorithm family linked from the README.
• TID2013 is the image-quality dataset used in the README's accuracy table.
• docs.rs hosts the Rust library documentation linked from the README.
• Image codec and compression benchmarking tools are natural neighbors because the README focuses on fair image-compression comparison.

来源

• https://github.com/kornelski/dssim#readme
• https://github.com/kornelski/dssim/releases/tag/1.2.0
• https://github.com/kornelski/dssim/releases/tag/1.3.2
• https://github.com/kornelski/dssim/releases/tag/2.8.0
• https://github.com/kornelski/dssim/releases/tag/3.2.3
• https://github.com/kornelski/dssim/releases/tag/3.4.0
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dssim