Title
Whitening central projection descriptor for affine-invariant shape description
Abstract
A novel descriptor, referred to as the whitening central projection predictor (WCPD), is developed for affine-invariant shape description. The proposed descriptor is based on central projection transform (CPT) and whitening transform (WT). Dislike contour-based or region-based approaches, an object is first converted to a closed curve by CPT, which is called the general curve (GC). The derived GC not only keeps the affine transform information, but also is very robust to noise. Then WT is performed to the GC with the purpose that the affine transformation is simplified to a rotation only. Finally, Fourier descriptors are employed to remove the rotation, and WCPD is obtained. One advantage of using WCPD for affine-invariant description lies in that it is applicable to objects consisting of several components. Furthermore, the approach used on the GC is contour-based, and is of small computational complexity. Several experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a powerful discrimination ability, and is more robust to noise.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1049/iet-ipr.2012.0094
IET Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
cpt,fourier transforms,fourier descriptors,shape recognition,region-based approaches,whitening transform,central projection transform,general curve,gc,wt,affine-invariant shape description,whitening central projection descriptor,computational complexity,powerful discrimination ability,object detection,contour-based approaches,wcpd,affine transforms,affine transform information,closed curve,affine transform
Affine transformation,Pattern recognition,Fourier transform,Affine invariant,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
1
1751-9659
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.40
27
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rushi Lan110015.72
Jianwei Yang25812.73
Yong Jiang3281.73
Colin Fyfe450.40
Zhan Song550.40