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Record Nr.

UNISA996466083603316

Autore

Reiss Thomas H

Titolo

Recognizing Planar Objects Using Invariant Image Features [[electronic resource] /] / by Thomas H. Reiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1993

ISBN

3-540-47634-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 1993.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 186 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 676

Disciplina

006.4/2

Soggetti

Computer graphics

Optical data processing

Pattern recognition

Geometry

Computer Graphics

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Pattern Recognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Translation, rotation, scale and contrast invariants -- Algebraic and projective invariants -- Invariance to affine transformations -- Invariance to projective transformations -- Recognizing partially occluded objects -- Summary and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Given a familiar object extracted from its surroundings, we humans have little difficulty in recognizing it irrespective of its size, position and orientation in our field of view. Changes in lighting and the effects of perspective also pose no problems. How do we achieve this, and more importantly, how can we get a computer to do this? One very promising approach is to find mathematical functions of an object's image, or of an object's 3D description, that are invariant to the transformations caused by the object's motion. This book is devoted to the theory and practice of such invariant image features, so-called image invariants, for planar objects. It gives a comprehensive summary of the field, discussing methods for recognizing both occluded and partially occluded objects, and also contains a definitive treatmentof



moment invariants and a tutorial introduction to algebraic invariants, which are fundamental to affine moment invariants and to many projective invariants. A number of novel invariant functions are presented and the results of numerous experiments investigating the stability of new and old invariants are discussed. The main conclusion is that moment invariants are very effective, both for partially occluded objects and for recognizing objects in grey-level images.