6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the classifying and/or clustering of the object comprises categorizing the translation-tolerant representation of the image dataset in a predetermined number of categories.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: classifying and/or clustering, by the computing system, an object within the translation-tolerant representation of the image dataset using a supervised classification algorithm and/or an unsupervised clustering algorithm.