Moment relations and blur invariant conditions for finite-extent signals in one, two and N-dimensions

  • Authors:
  • Frank M. Candocia

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, 10555 West Flagler Street, EAS 3915, Miami, FL

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The blur invariant features developed by Flusser et al. [Proc. Internat. Conf. of Pattern Recognition, 1996, p. 389; IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell. 20(6) (1998) 590; J. Math. Imaging Vision 13 (2000) 101] allow for exact pattern recognition between two continuous, infinite-extent signals related by a shift-invariant, centrosymmetric and energy-preserving filter. This paper addresses the case of discrete, finite-extent signals under these same filter constraints by establishing moment relations using a finite-extent convolution model. These relations demonstrate that the features of Flusser et al., while reporting good results, are not truly invariant to typical, discrete finite-extent signals. Using the established relations it is shown that, for Flusser et al.'s features to be truly invariant, the observed blurry signal must exactly result from the linear convolution of its associated reference signal and the shift-invariant filter--a condition that is likely not met in practice.