Image characterization by fast calculation of Legendre moments

Jun Shen; Dan-Fei Shen

doi:10.1117/12.262898

17 December 1996 Image characterization by fast calculation of Legendre moments

Jun Shen, Dan-Fei Shen

Proceedings Volume 2955, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.262898
Event: Satellite Remote Sensing III, 1996, Taormina, Italy

Abstract

How to calculate Legendre moments of images by less computation is a very important problem for the application of orthogonal moments in pattern recognition and image processing. in the present paper we propose the fast calculation to characterise 1-D signals and 2-D images by Legendre moments. We present at first the projections of 1-D signals onto Legendre polynomials and deduce their recursive calculation. We then introduce the scaled Legendre polynomials, the Legendre moments of 1-D signals with arbitrary window size and theirfast calulation. The implementation in discrete cases is presented and its computational complexity is analysed as well. To apply our method to 2-D image processing and recognition, the recursive algorithm is generalized to 2-D cases. With the approach presented, the computational complexity to characterise images by Legendre moments is greatly reduced and the implementation is simple. As the moments are widely used in image filtering, image segmentation, texture analysis and pattern recognition, the use of the algorithm proposed could greatly reduce the computational complexity of such tasks.

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Jun Shen and Dan-Fei Shen "Image characterization by fast calculation of Legendre moments", Proc. SPIE 2955, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing III, (17 December 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.262898

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