Title
On a 3D analogue of the first Hu moment invariant and a family of shape ellipsoidness measures.
Abstract
In this paper we show that a 3 analogue for the first Hu moment invariant, originally introduced for planar shapes, is minimized by a sphere. By exploiting this fact we define a new compactness measure for 3 shapes. The new compactness measure indicates how much a given shape differs from a sphere, which is assumed to be the most compact 3 shape. The new measure is invariant with respect to the similarity transformation and takes the maximum value if and only if the shape considered is a sphere. The methodology, used to derive the theoretical framework necessary for the definition and explanation of the behavior of the new compactness measure, is further extended and a family of 3 ellipsoidness measures is obtained. These ellipsoidness measures are also invariant with respect to similarity transformations and are maximized with certain ellipsoids only (these ellipsoids have the specific ratios between ellipsoid axes). The measures from the family distinguish among ellipsoids whose axes ratios differ—not all the ellipsoids have the same certain ellipsoidness measure. All the new measures are straightforward and fast to compute, e.g. within an asymptotically optimal time, if is the number of voxels of the shape considered, or is the number of triangles in the object surface triangular mesh. Several experiments, on the well-known McGill 3 Benchmark Data Set, are provided to illustrate the behavior of the new measures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-015-0730-x
Mach. Vis. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
3,D,shape,Shape compactness,Shape ellipsoidness,3,D,moment invariants,Image processing,Computer vision
Matrix similarity,Ellipsoid,Mathematical analysis,Image processing,Compact space,Planar,Invariant (mathematics),Asymptotically optimal algorithm,Mathematics,Triangle mesh
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
1
0932-8092
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.49
23
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jovisa D. Zunic126530.33
Kaoru Hirota21634195.49
Dragan Dukic320.49
Mehmet Ali Aktaş4171.83
ŽunićJoviša520.49
DukićDragan620.49
AktaşMehmet Ali720.49