A New Shape Description Method Using Angular Radial Transform

Jong-Min LEE  Whoi-Yul KIM  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E95-D   No.6   pp.1628-1635
Publication Date: 2012/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E95.D.1628
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Image Recognition, Computer Vision
Keyword: 
ART,  phase,  rotation invariance,  image retrieval,  CBIR,  

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Summary: 
Shape is one of the primary low-level image features in content-based image retrieval. In this paper we propose a new shape description method that consists of a rotationally invariant angular radial transform descriptor (IARTD). The IARTD is a feature vector that combines the magnitude and aligned phases of the angular radial transform (ART) coefficients. A phase correction scheme is employed to produce the aligned phase so that the IARTD is invariant to rotation. The distance between two IARTDs is defined by combining differences in the magnitudes and aligned phases. In an experiment using the MPEG-7 shape dataset, the proposed method outperforms existing methods; the average BEP of the proposed method is 57.69%, while the average BEPs of the invariant Zernike moments descriptor and the traditional ART are 41.64% and 36.51%, respectively.