Image classification using data compression techniques

In this paper we propose a parameter free image classification method based on data compression techniques, so to calculate a measure of similarity between images based on the approximation of the compression to Kolmogorov Complexity. For this experiment we use two types of compressors, ZIP the general purpose compressor and JPEG compressor specialized for images. After developing the method and perform the relevant experiments to determine whether the proposed approach is useful or not for image classification.