Image similarity measure is widely used in image processing. For binary images that are not composed of a 
single shape, a local comparison is interesting but the features are usely poor (color) or difficult 
to extract (texture, forms). We present a new binary image comparison method that uses a windowed 
Hausdorff distance in a pixel-adaptive way. It enables to quantify the local dissimilarities and to give 
their spatial distribution which greatly improve the dissimilarity information. Combined with a Support 
Vector Machine classifier, this method is successfully tested on an medieval-impression database.