A unified methodology for the efficient computation of discrete orthogonal image moments

  • Authors:

  • G. A. Papakostas;D. E. Koulouriotis;E. G. Karakasis

  • Affiliations:

  • Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vas. Sofias 12, 67100 Xanthi, Greece;Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Production Engineering and Management, 67100 Xanthi, Greece;Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Production Engineering and Management, 67100 Xanthi, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A novel methodology is proposed in this paper to accelerate the computation of discrete orthogonal image moments. The computation scheme is mainly based on a new image representation method, the image slice representation (ISR) method, according to which an image can be expressed as the outcome of an appropriate combination of several non-overlapped intensity slices. This image representation decomposes an image into a number of binary slices of the same size whose pixels come in two intensities, black or any other gray-level value. Therefore the image block representation can be effectively applied to describe the image in a more compact way. Once the image is partitioned into intensity blocks, the computation of the image moments can be accelerated, as the moments can be computed by using decoupled computation forms. The proposed algorithm constitutes a unified methodology that can be applied to any discrete moment family in the same way and produces similar promising results, as has been concluded through a detailed experimental investigation.