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leileizhang d37105bf84 [UI Tests] Replace pixel-by-pixel image comparison with perceptual hash (pHash) for improved visual similarity detection (#40653)
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## Summary of the Pull Request
This PR replaces the previous pixel-by-pixel image comparison logic with
a perceptual hash (pHash)-based comparison using the
CoenM.ImageSharp.ImageHash library.

**Removes the need for golden images from CI pipelines**
Since the comparison is perceptual rather than binary, we no longer need
to fetch pixel-perfect golden images from pipelines for validation.
Developers can now capture screenshots locally and still get meaningful,
robust comparisons.

### Why pHash?
Unlike direct pixel comparison (which fails on minor rendering
differences), pHash focuses on the overall structure and visual
perception of the image. This provides several benefits:

- Robust to minor differences: tolerates compression artifacts,
anti-aliasing, subtle rendering changes, and border padding.
- Resilient to resolution or format changes: works even if images are
scaled or compressed differently.
- Closer to human perception: more accurately reflects whether two
images "look" the same to a person.

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- [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized
- [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated
- [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places
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for new binaries and localization folder
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check-spelling/check-spelling configuration

File Purpose Format Info
allow.txt Add words to the dictionary one word per line (only letters and 's allowed) allow
reject.txt Remove words from the dictionary (after allow) grep pattern matching whole dictionary words reject
excludes.txt Files to ignore entirely perl regular expression excludes
only.txt Only check matching files (applied after excludes) perl regular expression only
patterns.txt Patterns to ignore from checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
candidate.patterns Patterns that might be worth adding to patterns.txt perl regular expression with optional comment block introductions (all matches will be suggested) candidates
line_forbidden.patterns Patterns to flag in checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
expect.txt Expected words that aren't in the dictionary one word per line (sorted, alphabetically) expect
advice.md Supplement for GitHub comment when unrecognized words are found GitHub Markdown advice

Note: you can replace any of these files with a directory by the same name (minus the suffix) and then include multiple files inside that directory (with that suffix) to merge multiple files together.