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Similarity measure is an important tool to evaluate the degree of similarity between different objects. Therefore, a large number of similarity measures on picture fuzzy sets have been studied. However, some existing similarity measures have not been unified into a framework. The aim of this paper is to study a construction method of similarity measure on picture fuzzy sets, based on this, we can unify some existing similarity measures into a framework, and then propose some new similarity measures. Firstly, the concept of picture fuzzy equivalence is introduced. Some construction methods for picture fuzzy equivalence are given. Secondly, a construction method of similarity measure on picture fuzzy sets is proposed. Some new similarity measures on picture fuzzy sets based on picture fuzzy equivalences are given and some existing similarity measures are unified into a framework. Finally, the proposed similarity measures are applied to pattern recognition. By comparing the degrees of confidence, we find that our degrees of confidence are higher than some similarity measures. The experimental results show that the proposed similarity measures can effectively distinguish some similar picture fuzzy sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]