If you only have 48 images to compare against, or 480 for that matter, you could indeed just loop through them all, calculating a total-difference statistic, sort them by that, and take the one with the lowest total difference.
The problem arises when you have more like 48 million images in your database, at which point looping through all of them becomes prohibitive.
The solution I can think of is going to be more SQL than Perl, though you could use Perl to build the SQL you want. The idea would be to develop a query that looks for images with some of their statistics being very similar to the ones for the current image. Since you can set up the database to pre-emptively index these fields, you can thus avoid the need to do all the difference calculations for every image in the database every time.
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