Accurate and speedy computation of image Legendre moments for computer vision applications

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 414-423

  Papakostas, G A ^a   Karakasis, E G ^a   Koulouriotis, D E ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Feature extraction; Image Block Representation; Legendre moments; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

BLOCK REPRESENTATION; COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS; GRAY SCALE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; IMAGE BLOCKS; IMAGE COMPONENTS; IMAGE MOMENTS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; IMAGE SLICES; LEGENDRE; LEGENDRE MOMENTS; NOVEL ALGORITHM;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70449707594     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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