>> I'm quite sure that behind the scene, for all GUIs, a metric gets >> computed to decide whether there are differences at all. We 'just' >> have to find one that fits our needs. > > It looks like you want a different property than an average metric, > so perhaps what you have can be modified to add that.
Yes, this might be the solution to go: On top of the MAE algorithm we currently use, another algorithm might increase the penalty for small feature differences so that it is above our threshold. Werner