Blurred image recognition by Legendre moment invariants

  • Authors:
  • Hui Zhang;Huazhong Shu;Guoniu N. Han;Gouenou Coatrieux;Limin Luo;Jean Louis Coatrieux

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University and Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français, Nanjing ...;Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University and Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français, Nanjing ...;Institute de Recherche en Mathématiques et Application, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France;Institut TELECOM, TELECOM Bretagne, INSERM, Brest, France;Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University and Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français, Nanjing ...;INSERM, Rennes, France and Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image, Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France and Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français, R ...

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Processing blurred images is a key problem in many image applications. Existing methods to obtain blur invariants which are invariant with respect to centrally symmetric blur are based on geometric moments or complex moments. In this paper, we propose a new method to construct a set of blur invariants using the orthogonal Legendre moments. Some important properties of Legendre moments for the blurred image are presented and proved. The performance of the proposed descriptors is evaluated with various point-spread functions and different image noises. The comparison of the present approach with previous methods in terms of pattern recognition accuracy is also provided. The experimental results show that the proposed descriptors are more robust to noise and have better discriminative power than the methods based on geometric or complex moments.