Fast computation of moments on compressed grey images using block representation

  • Authors:
  • Kuo-Liang Chung;Wen-Ming Yan;Zhi-Hor Liao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Road, Taipei, Taiwan 10672, R. O. C.;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan 100, R. O. C.;Department Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Road, Taipei, Taiwan 10672, R. O. C.

  • Venue:
  • Real-Time Imaging
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In image processing, moments are useful tools for analyzing shapes. Suppose that the input grey image with size N × N has been compressed into the compressed image using the block representation, where the number of blocks used is K. commonly K N2 due to the compression effect. This paper presents an efficient O(N √K)-time algorithm for computing moments on the compressed image directly. Experimental results reveal a significant computational advantage of the proposed algorithm, while preserving a high accuracy of moments and a good compression ratio. The results of this paper extend the previous results in [7] from the binary image domain to the grey image domain.