Translation invariants of Zernike moments

Moment functions defined using a polar coordinate representation of the image space, such as radial moments and Zernike moments, are used in several recognition tasks requiring rotation invariance. However, this coordinate representation does not easily yield translation invariant functions, which are also widely sought after in pattern recognition applications. This paper presents a mathematical framework for the derivation of translation invariants of radial moments defined in polar form. Using a direct application of this framework, translation invariant functions of Zernike moments are derived algebraically from the corresponding central moments. Both derived functions are developed for non-symmetrical as well as symmetrical images. They mitigate the zero-value obtained for odd-order moments of the symmetrical images. Vision applications generally resort to image normalization to achieve translation invariance. The proposed method eliminates this requirement by providing a translation invariance property in a Zernike feature set. The performance of the derived invariant sets is experimentally confirmed using a set of binary Latin and English characters.     

Radial Meixner Moment Invariants for 2D and 3D Image Recognition

In this paper, we propose a new set of 2D and 3D rotation invariants based on orthogonal radial Meixner moments. We also present a theoretical mathematics to derive them. Hence, this paper introduces in the first case a new 2D radial Meixner moments based on polar representation of an object by a one-dimensional orthogonal discrete Meixner polynomials and a circular function. In the second case, we present a new 3D radial Meixner moments using a spherical representation of volumetric image by a one-dimensional orthogonal discrete Meixner polynomials and a spherical function. Further 2D and 3D rotational invariants are derived from the proposed 2D and 3D radial Meixner moments respectively. In order to prove the proposed approach, three issues are resolved mainly image reconstruction, rotational invariance and pattern recognition. The result of experiments prove that the Meixner moments have done better than the Krawtchouk moments with and without nose. Simultaneously, the reconstructed volumetric image converges quickly to the original image using 2D and 3D radial Meixner moments and the test images are clearly recognized from a set of images that are available in a PSB database.     

伪Zernike矩不变性分析及其改进研究

伪 Zernike矩是基于图象整个区域的形状描述算子 ,而基于轮廓的形状描述子 ,例如曲率描述子、傅立叶描述子和链码描述子等是不能正确描述由几个不连接区域组成的形状的 ,因为这些算子只能描述单个的轮廓形状 .同时 ,由于伪 Zernike矩的基是正交径向多项式 ,和 Hu矩相比 ,除了具有旋转不变性、高阶矩和低阶矩能表达不同信息等特征外 ,还具有冗余性小、可以任意构造高阶矩等特点 ,另外 ,伪 Zernike矩还可以用于目标重构 .目前 ,伪 Zernike矩没有得到广泛的应用 ,其中的一个主要原因是 ,它不具备真正意义上的比例不变性 .为了能使伪Zernike矩得到更广泛的应用 ,在详细分析伪 Zernike矩不变性的基础上 ,提出了伪 Zernike矩的改进方法 ,使改进后的伪 Zernike矩在保持旋转不变性的同时 ,还具有真正意义上的比例不变性 ,同时给出了部分的实验分析结果 .实验结果证明 ,该改进后的伪 Zernike矩较改进前的伪 Zernike矩 ,具有更好的旋转和比例不变性 .     

Radial shifted Legendre moments for image analysis and invariant image recognition

The rotation, scaling and translation invariant property of image moments has a high significance in image recognition. Legendre moments as a classical orthogonal moment have been widely used in image analysis and recognition. Since Legendre moments are defined in Cartesian coordinate, the rotation invariance is difficult to achieve. In this paper, we first derive two types of transformed Legendre polynomial: substituted and weighted radial shifted Legendre polynomials. Based on these two types of polynomials, two radial orthogonal moments, named substituted radial shifted Legendre moments and weighted radial shifted Legendre moments (SRSLMs and WRSLMs) are proposed. The proposed moments are orthogonal in polar coordinate domain and can be thought as generalized and orthogonalized complex moments. They have better image reconstruction performance, lower information redundancy and higher noise robustness than the existing radial orthogonal moments. At last, a mathematical framework for obtaining the rotation, scaling and translation invariants of these two types of radial shifted Legendre moments is provided. Theoretical and experimental results show the superiority of the proposed methods in terms of image reconstruction capability and invariant recognition accuracy under both noisy and noise-free conditions.     

3D radial invariant of dual Hahn moments

In this work, we propose new sets of 2D and 3D rotation invariants based on orthogonal radial dual Hahn moments, which are orthogonal on a non-uniform lattice. We also present theoretical mathematics to derive them. Thus, this paper presents in the first case new 2D radial dual Hahn moments based on polar representation of an image by one-dimensional orthogonal discrete dual Hahn polynomials and a circular function. The dual Hahn polynomials are general case of Tchebichef and Krawtchouk polynomials. In the second case, we introduce new 3D radial dual Hahn moments employing a spherical representation of volumetric image by one-dimensional orthogonal discrete dual Hahn polynomials and a spherical function, which are orthogonal on a non-uniform lattice. The 2D and 3D rotational invariants are extracts from the proposed 2D and 3D radial dual Hahn moments respectively. In order to test the proposed approach, three problems namely image reconstruction, rotational invariance and pattern recognition are attempted using the proposed moments. The result of experiments shows that the radial dual Hahn moments have performed better than the radial Tchebichef and Krawtchouk moments, with and without noise. Simultaneously, the mentioned reconstruction converges quickly to the original image using 2D and 3D radial dual Hahn moments, and the test images are clearly recognized from a set of images that are available in COIL-20 database for 2D image and PSB database for 3D image.

     

伪Zernike矩的不变性分析及其应用

本文从几何矩的概念出发,详细介绍了Zernike和伪Zernike矩。然后重点分析了伪Zernike矩的旋转、位移及尺度不变性。本文利用脱机手写签名图像对此进行了验证,实验结果证明了其不变性特征。故本文提出利用伪Zernike矩来进行脱机手写签名图像的特征提取。     

Radial invariant of 2D and 3D Racah moments

In this paper, we introduce new sets of 2D and 3D rotation, scaling and translation invariants based on orthogonal radial Racah moments. We also provide theoretical mathematics to derive them. Thus, this work proposes in the first case a new 2D radial Racah moments based on polar representation of an object by one-dimensional orthogonal discrete Racah polynomials on non-uniform lattice, and a circular function. In the second case, we present new 3D radial Racah moments using a spherical representation of volumetric image by one-dimensional orthogonal discrete Racah polynomials and a spherical function. Further 2D and 3D invariants are extracted from the proposed 2D and 3D radial Racah moments respectively will appear in the third case. To validate the proposed approach, we have resolved three problems. The 2D/ 3D image reconstruction, the invariance of 2D/3D rotation, scaling and translation, and the pattern recognition. The result of experiments show that the Racah moments have done better than the Krawtchouk moments, with and without noise. Simultaneously, the mentioned reconstruction converges rapidly to the original image using 2D and 3D radial Racah moments, and the test 2D/3D images are clearly recognized from a set of images that are available in COIL-20 database for 2D image, and PSB database for 3D image.     

Three dimensional radial Tchebichef moment invariants for volumetric image recognition

The property of rotation, scaling and translation invariant has a great important in 3D image classification and recognition. Tchebichef moments as a classical orthogonal moment have been widely used in image analysis and recognition. Since Tchebichef moments are represented in Cartesian coordinate, the rotation invariance can’t easy to realize. In this paper, we propose a new set of 3D rotation scaling and translation invariance of radial Tchebichef moments. We also present a theoretical mathematics to derive them. Hence, this paper we present a new 3D radial Tchebichef moments using a spherical representation of volumetric image by a one-dimensional orthogonal discrete Tchebichef polynomials and a spherical function. They have better image reconstruction performance, lower information redundancy and higher noise robustness than the existing radial orthogonal moments. At last, a mathematical framework for obtaining the rotation, scaling and translation invariants of these two types of Tchebichef moments is provided. Theoretical and experimental results show the superiority of the proposed methods in terms of image reconstruction capability and invariant recognition accuracy under both noisy and noise-free conditions. The result of experiments prove that the Tchebichef moments have done better than the Krawtchouk moments with and without noise. Simultaneously, the reconstructed 3D image converges quickly to the original image using 3D radial Tchebichef moments and the test images are clearly recognized from a set of images that are available in a PSB database.     

Radial Hahn Moment Invariants for 2D and 3D Image Recognition

Recently, orthogonal moments have become efficient tools for two-dimensional and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) image not only in pattern recognition, image vision, but also in image processing and applications engineering. Yet, there is still a major difficulty in 3D rotation invariants. In this paper, we propose new sets of invariants for 2D and 3D rotation, scaling and translation based on orthogonal radial Hahn moments. We also present theoretical mathematics to derive them. Thus, this paper introduces in the first case new 2D radial Hahn moments based on polar representation of an object by one-dimensional orthogonal discrete Hahn polynomials, and a circular function. In the second case, we present new 3D radial Hahn moments using a spherical representation of volumetric image by one-dimensional orthogonal discrete Hahn polynomials and a spherical function. Further 2D and 3D invariants are derived from the proposed 2D and 3D radial Hahn moments respectively, which appear as the third case. In order to test the proposed approach, we have resolved three issues: the image reconstruction, the invariance of rotation, scaling and translation, and the pattern recognition. The result of experiments show that the Hahn moments have done better than the Krawtchouk moments, with and without noise. Simultaneously, the mentioned reconstruction converges quickly to the original image using 2D and 3D radial Hahn moments, and the test images are clearly recognized from a set of images that are available in COIL-20 database for 2D image, and Princeton shape benchmark (PSB) database for 3D image.     

一种可有效抵抗几何攻击的鲁棒图像水印算法

伪Zernike矩(Pesudo-Zernike Moments)是一组正交复数矩,其不仅具有旋转不变性、更低的噪声敏感性,而且还具有表达有效性、计算快速性以及多级表达性等特点.以伪Zernike矩理论为基础,提出了一种可有效抵抗几何攻击的数字图像水印新方案.该方案首先结合伪Zernike矩的旋转不变特性,计算出原始载体图像的伪Zernike矩;然后选取部分低阶伪Zernike矩;最后采纳量化调制策略将水印信息嵌入到伪Zernike矩幅值中.实验结果表明,该数字图像水印方案不仅具有良好的透明性,而且具有较强的抵抗常规信号处理、几何攻击等能力,整体性能优于Zernike矩图像水印方案.     

Efficient computation of radial moment functions using symmetrical property

The applications of radial moment functions such as orthogonal Zernike and pseudo-Zernike moments in real-world have been limited by the computational complexity of their radial polynomials. The common approaches used in reducing the computational complexity include the application of recurrence relations between successive radial polynomials and coefficients. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to further reduce the computation complexity of Zernike and pseudo-Zernike polynomials based on the symmetrical property of radial polynomials. By using this symmetrical property, the real-valued radial polynomials computation is reduced to about one-eighth of the full set polynomials while the computation of the exponential angle values is reduced by half. This technique can be integrated with existing fast computation methods to further improve the computation speed. Besides significant reduction in computation complexity, it also provides vast reduction in memory storage.     

New set of adapted Gegenbauer–Chebyshev invariant moments for image recognition and classification

Orthogonal moments and their invariants to geometric transformations for gray-scale images are widely used in many pattern recognition and image processing applications. In this paper, we propose a new set of orthogonal polynomials called adapted Gegenbauer–Chebyshev polynomials (AGC). This new set is used as a basic function to define the orthogonal adapted Gegenbauer–Chebyshev moments (AGCMs). The rotation, scaling, and translation invariant property of (AGCMs) is derived and analyzed. We provide a novel series of feature vectors of images based on the adapted Gegenbauer–Chebyshev orthogonal moments invariants (AGCMIs). We practice a novel image classification system using the proposed feature vectors and the fuzzy k-means classifier. A series of experiments is performed to validate this new set of orthogonal moments and compare its performance with the existing orthogonal moments as Legendre invariants moments, the Gegenbauer and Tchebichef invariant moments using three different image databases: the MPEG7-CE Shape database, the Columbia Object Image Library (COIL-20) database and the ORL-faces database. The obtained results ensure the superiority of the proposed AGCMs over all existing moments in representation and recognition of the images.

     

Rotation Scaling and Translation Invariants of 3D Radial Shifted Legendre Moments

This paper proposes a new set of 3D rotation scaling and translation invariants of 3D radially shifted Legendre moments. We aim to develop two kinds of transformed shifted Legendre moments: a 3D substituted radial shifted Legendre moments (3DSRSLMs) and a 3D weighted radial one (3DWRSLMs). Both are centered on two types of polynomials. In the first case, a new 3D radial complex moment is proposed. In the second case, new 3D substituted/weighted radial shifted Legendre moments (3DSRSLMs/3DWRSLMs) are introduced using a spherical representation of volumetric image. 3D invariants as derived from the suggested 3D radial shifted Legendre moments will appear in the third case. To confirm the proposed approach, we have resolved three issues. To confirm the proposed approach, we have resolved three issues: rotation, scaling and translation invariants. The result of experiments shows that the 3DSRSLMs and 3DWRSLMs have done better than the 3D radial complex moments with and without noise. Simultaneously, the reconstruction converges rapidly to the original image using 3D radial 3DSRSLMs and 3DWRSLMs, and the test of 3D images are clearly recognized from a set of images that are available in Princeton shape benchmark (PSB) database for 3D image.     

Accurate calculation of high order pseudo-Zernike moments and their numerical stability

The accuracy of pseudo-Zernike moments (PZMs) suffers from various errors, such as the geometric error, numerical integration error, and discretization error. Moreover, the high order moments are vulnerable to numerical instability. In this paper, we present a method for the accurate calculation of PZMs which not only removes the geometric error and numerical integration error, but also provides numerical stability to PZMs of high orders. The geometric error is removed by taking the square-grids and arc-grids, the ensembles of which maps exactly the circular domain of PZMs calculation. The Gaussian numerical integration is used to eliminate the numerical integration error. The recursive methods for the calculation of pseudo-Zernike polynomials not only reduce the computation complexity, but also provide numerical stability to high order moments. A simple computational framework to implement the proposed approach is also discussed. Detailed experimental results are presented which prove the accuracy and numerical stability of PZMs.     

Image analysis by Bessel-Fourier moments

In this paper, we proposed a new set of moments based on the Bessel function of the first kind, named Bessel-Fourier moments (BFMs), which are more suitable than orthogonal Fourier-Mellin and Zernike moments for image analysis and rotation invariant pattern recognition. Compared with orthogonal Fourier-Mellin and Zernike polynomials of the same degree, the new orthogonal radial polynomials have more zeros, and these zeros are more evenly distributed. The Bessel-Fourier moments can be thought of as generalized orthogonalized complex moments. Theoretical and experimental results show that the Bessel-Fourier moments perform better than the orthogonal Fourier-Mellin and Zernike moments (OFMMs and ZMs) in terms of image reconstruction capability and invariant recognition accuracy in noise-free, noisy and smooth distortion conditions.     

基于彩色图像四元数表示的彩色人脸识别

为了更有效地利用彩色人脸的色彩信息进行识别,提出了一种新的基于彩色图像四元数表示的算法. 首先基于彩色图像四元数表示和四元数代数理论定义了四元数伪Zernike矩(Quaternion pseudo-Zernike moments, QPZMs), 将传统的主要处理灰度图像的伪Zernike矩(Pseudo-Zernike moments, PZMs)推广应用于彩色图像,然后基于QPZMs构造了彩色人脸图像针对旋转、缩放和平移(Rotation, scaling, and translation, RST)变换的四元数值不变量,最后结合这些鲁棒的不变量特征和四元数BP神经网络(Quaternion back propagation neural network, QBPNN)分类器进行彩色人脸识别. 实验结果表明,与现有基于四元数的算法比较,本文算法在表情、光照、位置等变化方面具有更强的鲁棒性.     

脱机手写签名鉴别研究

本文主要研究了脱机手写签名的特征提取,提出了一种结合静态特征与动态特征的新的鉴别方法。提取静态特征时,利用伪Zemike矩的尺度及位移不变性,在细化的签名图像上计算10阶伪Zemike不变矩来组成特征向量。提取动态特征时,则首先从灰度图像得到签名的全局及局部高密区域,利用高密区域与原签名图像对应部分的面积之比得到全局和局部HDF。另外在全局高密区域的基础上,计算其相对重心,并将其作为男一个特征。结合两类特征形成16维特征向量后,建立一个系统,在系统中采用290个真伪签名进行验证。实验结果表明,系统的FAR和FRR分别可以达到7．25％、9．30％。