Image indexing using moments and wavelets

Author

Mandal, M.K. ; Aboulnasr, T. ; Panchanathan, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

42

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

557

Lastpage

565

Abstract

Histogram comparison is a popular technique for image and video indexing. The complexity of the technique can be reduced by representing the histogram by its moments. In this paper, we propose two techniques to improve the performance of the basic histogram/moment-based technique. First, we propose to use orthogonal Legendre moments for representing histograms. Since Legendre moments are orthogonal, they provide superior indexing performance compared to regular moments at a similar complexity. Secondly, we propose to compare the histograms of wavelet coefficients at different scales. The wavelet coefficients provide important directional information, and hence improve the performance of the basic histogram-based technique. The proposed scheme can be easily extended to color images and also be integrated into a wavelet-based image coder

Keywords

Legendre polynomials; computational complexity; image coding; image representation; indexing; information retrieval; visual databases; wavelet transforms; color images; complexity; directional information; histogram comparison; image indexing; orthogonal Legendre moments; representation; wavelet-based image coder; wavelets; Histograms; Image analysis; Image coding; Image color analysis; Image databases; Image retrieval; Indexing; Shape; Wavelet analysis; Wavelet coefficients;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.536156

Filename

536156